Word: proffers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time, as the arriving U.S. delegation quietly drove through Paris, there were no pilgrims to proffer prayers and roses. No one thought of cheering "Byrnes the Just." Whatever the Peace of Paris might bring, it would not cause the corrosive disillusionment which came in the wake of 1919's extravagant hopes. On the conference's opening day, police set up wooden barricades near the Luxembourg Palace to keep the crowds back-but there were no crowds. At lunchtime, the Prefect of Police personally inspected the whole palace to make sure that it contained no bombs. Then...
...province," denazification boards have cleaned out 90% of the Civil Service lists, 98% of the teachers. At the same time, however, the Russians are courting pet Germans. Civil government offices for Germans are always more comfortable and pleasant than the Russian Military Government offices. Officers salute, click their heels, proffer cigarets and act toward the Germans with a grave courtesy that many an American officer has not yet learned. In Weimar the reporters went down to the National Theater and found a pale, 26-year-old youth sitting in Goethe's chair. Hans Viehweg became a Socialist after...
However, the great majority of these citizens proffer their support only to be discouraged and subsequently defeated in their purpose by laws of zoning and egression, labor difficulties, and shortage of materials. For example, an owner may wish to convert their attics or third stories into living accommodations. The owner soon discovers that, by law, he may place his own family or servants in these quarters; but, when renting them to others, he finds they must have two means of egression. Thus he must either deface his home with an exterior fire escape or else remodel his whole house...
...depths of despair. We wonder that no one has come forward to say that if the Government of France is poor and reduced to expedients, it is because the war-weary people have lost confidence and interest. Though they sadly need the aid that the U.S. might proffer, they know that it is not reasonable of such a government to ask it. But we feel certain that if the U.S. Government or any responsible organization would float an American loan in France, at almost any exchange rate, and almost any interest, it would be covered overnight by the French people...
...Celotto, who once owned a grocery in Manhattan, was happy again. A new Italian ambassador was about to arrive. Antonino put on his best suit, slicked his coal black hair with pomade. He waited at the massive front door. As soon as it was proper for a caretaker to proffer his hand, Antonino greeted the new ambassador...