Disarray

Nixon was also eager to have verbatim accounts that would later be useful in countering assertions that others, especially Kissinger, were the driving force in initiating successful policies. Nixon also thought that clashes between Rogers and Kissinger undermined public confidence in his leadership. The competition between the two for control of foreign policy had produced press leaks, which suggested that the administration was in disarray.

Disapprove

Seeing no broad black face, turbaned in snowy white, peering disapprovingly from between fluttering curtains, she boldly snatched up her green flowered skirts and sped down the path toward the driveway as fast as her small ribbon-laced slippers would carry her.

Devolve

The first duty which devolves upon the mother in the training of her child is the establishment of her authority over him—that is, the forming in him the habit of immediate, implicit, and unquestioning obedience to all her commands.

Dispense

The followers of science have never been able to dispense with quackery. Each would have his opinions prevail; the subtle doctor would eclipse the angelic doctor, and the profound doctor would reign alone.

For two weeks the cash machine was unable to dispense money.

Doctors confine themselves to prescribing rather than dispensing.

Dole

No sooner do they arrive in a place than they are anxious to know what amusements it affords; just as though they were beggars asking where they could receive a dole.

Damp

The slave, who is in the power of another, has but little inclination for marriage; he often shudders even at the thought of producing slaves like himself. His industry is damped; his soul is brutalized; and his strength is never exercised in its full energy and elasticity.

Decline

Libraries are an investment for the future and they should not be allowed to fall into decline.

Hourly output by the workers declined 1.3% in the first quarter.

Deal

The lawyers ascertained that a policeman had indeed dealt roughly with foreigners on several occasions. The fact that the policeman was prejudiced against foreigners could not be recorded in the official files. It was only possible for the Ombudsman to find this out by sending one of his representatives to check the facts. The policeman in question was severely reprimanded and was informed that if any further complaints were lodged against him, he would be prosecuted. The ombudsman’s prompt action at once put an end to an unpleasant practice which might have gone unnoticed.

Monkeys and apes spend a great deal of time grooming one another’s fur.

The croupier dealt each player a card, face down.

Their lives became a good deal more  comfortable.

The German manufacturer was urging me to cut out the middle man and deal with him direct.

Delude

The great projector was the idol of the whole nation. Men spoke to him with more profound respect than to the Lord High Commissioner. His antechamber was crowded with solicitors desirous to catch some drops of that golden shower of which he was supposed to be the dispenser. To be seen walking with him in the street, to be honored by him with a private interview of a quarter of an hour, were enviable distinctions.

Desire

Desire, then, plays a most important role in human evolution. It awakens, stimulates, propels. What wind is to the ship, what steam is to the locomotive, desire is to the human being.

Deskbound

Daniels abolished the board of four admiral aides that stood between him and the department; limited the terms of bureau chiefs to four years; and required deskbound officers to put to sea.

Derision

Almost all men who have been distinguished as artists, writers or men of science have in boyhood been objects of derision and contempt to their schoolfellows; and only too often the teachers have sided with the herd, because it annoyed them that a boy should be odd.

Defer

They have forced upon woman an artificial character which well conceals their real character, and women have found it profitable to encourage the deception. But though every normal man thus cherishes the soothing unction that he is the intellectual superior of all women, and particularly of his wife, he constantly gives the lie to his pretension by consulting and deferring to what he calls her intuition.

Devoid

  The low-caste man is never quite sure of his wife unless he is convinced that she is entirely devoid of amorous susceptibility. Thus he grows uneasy whenever she shows any signs of responding in kind to his own elephantine emotions, and is apt to be suspicious of even so trivial a thing as a hearty response to a connubial kiss. If he could manage to rid himself of such suspicions, there would be less public gable about anesthetic wives, and fewer books written by quacks with sure cures for them, and a good deal less cold-mutton formalism and boredom at the domestic hearth.

Dismiss

   A few women, true enough, are so pertinacious that they prefer defeat to compromise. That is to say, they prefer to put off marriage indefinitely rather than to marry beneath the highest leap of their fancy. But such women may be quickly dismissed as abnormal, and perhaps as downright diseased in mind.

Distrust

   Like them, Kissinger distrusted the good intentions of others, always assuming that given half a chance a competitor would take advantage of any show of weakness. Kissinger’s temper tantrums can be attributed to an inflated ego. His academic success at Harvard coupled with his ability to impress on so many influential people made him feel exceptional and deserving of special regard.

Directional

   The fork in the tongue gives the snake a sort of directional sense of smell and taste simultaneously. The snake keeps its tongue constantly in motion, sampling particles from the air, ground and water, analyzing the chemicals found and determining the presence of prey or predators in its local environment.

Dowry

  And he hurried out of the room, very glad to have got though with the matter, which had troubled him a good deal, for he had no doubt that she would the next morning accept  a proposal which she could never have expected and which would be a capital bargain for him, as he thus bound a woman to his interests who would certainly bring more than if she had the best dowry in the district.

Dwelling

   Mathilde suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born to enjoy all delicacies and all luxuries. She was distressed at the poverty of her dwelling, at the bareness of the walls, at the shabby chairs, the ugliness of the curtains. All those things, of which another woman of her rank would never have been conscious, tortured her and made her angry.

Dwell on

  Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and good and dwell as little as possible on the dark and the base. A woman possessing nothing but outward  advantages is like a flower without fragrance, a tree without fruit.

Disarm

The civilized woman, gradually degenerated by a greater ease, and helped down that hill by the pretensions of civilized man, has turned her infirmity into a virtue, and so affects a feebleness that is actually far beyond the reality. It is by this route that she can most effectively disarm masculine distrust, and get what she wants. Man is flattered by any acknowledgment, however insincere, of his superior strength and capacity.

Detachment

His own desire for detachment conflicted with his desire for companionship, mirroring the struggle between his attraction and his aversion to fame. One person who elicited strong and sustained personal emotions in Einstein was his mother.

Disingenuous

It impelled him to cringe at trappings of hierarchy or class distinction, to eschew excess consumption and materialism, and to dedicate himself to efforts on behalf of refugees and the oppressed. But it was not Einstein’s style to speak disingenuously in order to appear to conform.

Distraught

The distraught birds careened desperately into the air every which way, smashing into the balcony, the lights, bombarding spectators, and swooping so low over the rostrum that Chairman Rayburn had to fend off several at once, to the delight of the crowd as well as Truman and Barkley who were laughing uproariously. In manner as well as content he was drawing the line so there could be no mistaking one candidate for the other.

Dark

The investigators admit that they are completely in the dark about the killing.

The man in the black overcoat shot a penetrating look at the other man.

Alina shot to fame a few years ago with her first extraordinary novel.

Deafen

He always talked in such a strong voice that it was necessary for the listener to hold the receiver away from his ear away to avoid being deafened, so I found it possible to hear both ends of the conversation.

Dissolute

He was suffering from disillusionment and pangs of conscience such as he had never before known, all of which may have had a great deal to do with his heartaches. Any man who was dissolute with women, Truman believed, was not a man to be trusted entirely. Pendergast, as if lecturing a slow student, had told him that very few men stayed honest if given opportunity to cheat and get away with it.

Dormant

Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation, and a curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching virtues of patience and long suffering.

Disciplinarian

She would remember being hungry during the times her father took the family away with him to other towns. The only disciplinarian in the household was her mother, whose eyes could turn steely and who on occasion spanker her, as her father never did.

Drag by

Ten minutes dragged by until finally, in singles and pairs, passengers started to filter through the blank, windowless exit doors. They were met by a sea of hopeful faces. Excited waving and squeals of happiness broke out here and there as friends and families were reunited.

Decide

The Supreme Command had decided on a colossal, all out offensive to end the war. This great Meuse-Argonne offensive, as it would be known, was the largest action in American military history until then. Yet so exhausted were the men as night wore on that some of them were falling asleep on their feet.

Dishonor

We found that the bank had dishonored some of our checks.

It would dishonor my family if I didn’t wear the veil.

Disciples

In the meanwhile he was giving instructions to his two disciples, showing them the manner in which they should handle their rods, fix their flies, and play them along the surface of the stream.

Default

It is obvious today that Americans has defaulted on this promissory note in so far as her citizens of color are concerned.

Detract

But Kissinger was not about to leave, and Nixon saw more risk in showing Henry the door than keeping him on. He wished to anticipate and consider every possible development to assure against anything that might detract from what he saw as a great asset in his reelection campaign and the overall record of his presidency.

Disown

American humanity hates us, scorns us, disowns and denies, in a thousand way, our very personality. The outspread wing of American Christianity, apparently broad enough to give shelter to a perishing world, refuses to cover us.

Excess

When the unities fuse, the results achieved are far in excess of the sum of the parts. Here, by every sign, was a man on the verge of pulling off the biggest political upset in American history.

Enmesh

Women have broken many of their old chains, but they are still enmeshed in a formidable network of manmade taboos and sentimentalities, and it will take them another generation, at least, to get genuine freedom. It is almost impossible to find a man who honestly wishes that he were a woman, but almost every woman, at some time or other in her life, is gnawed by a regret that she is not a man.

Eclipse

   Because vice presidents- almost always ambitious politicians—were the greatest threat to presidential power, they were invariably kept in the background. Nixon’s concern then was not unprecedented. But it was excessive and revealed his self doubt and lifelong fear of being eclipsed or having to stand in someone’s shadow. He was incapable of believing that his office and actions as president would ensure his standing at the head of the country, his administration and his party.

Effluent

David knelt, cupped his hands and splashed river water on to his face.

The effluent from the factory was dumped into the river.

Espouse

But however zealous you may feel about the truth or righteousness of the cause you espouse, you will do well always to keep within the bounds of moderation. You can be vigorous without violence, and enthusiastic without extravagance.

Eschew

Moralists eschew sentimentality about the poor: in the absence of restraint and guidance, the poor can be expected to be idle, sexually casual, and violent, and so indeed they are.

Enjoy

  He kept major decisions in his own hands, played his cards close to his chest, and enjoyed the consternation of opponents when his maneuvers were revealed.

  Roosevelt enjoyed life to the full, and his unquenchable optimism never faded.

Enfeeble

The health of James had been during some years declining and he had at length, on Good Friday, 1701, suffered a shock from which he had never recovered. While he was listening in his chapel to the solemn service of the day, he fell down in a fit, and remained long insensible. Some people imagined that the words of the anthem which his choristers were chanting had produced in him emotions too violent to be borne by an enfeebled body and mind.

Exalt

Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind.

Exchange

The truth is that prostitution is one of the most attractive of the occupations practically open to the sort of women who engaged in it, and that the prostitute commonly likes her work, and would not exchange places with a shop girl or a waitress for anything in the world. The high value set upon virginity by men, whose esteem of it is based upon a mixture of vanity and voluptuousness, causes many women to guard it in their own persons with a jealousy far beyond their private inclinations and interests.

Embalm

We are told that the Egyptians built their pyramids for no other purposes than to make tombs of them, and that their bodies, embalmed within and without, waited there for their souls to come and reanimate them at the end of a thousand years.

Elude

   They attacked him in various ways—with barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises; but he eluded the skill of them all, and they were at last obliged to accept the second-hand intelligence of their neighbor, Lady Lucas. Her report was highly favorable. Sir William had been delighted with him. He was quite young, wonderfully handsome, extremely agreeable, and to crown the whole, he meant to be at the next assembly with a large party.

Exterior

  As a result there will be a shortage of husbands in Christendom, and as a second result the survivors will be appreciably harder to snare than the men of today. Every man of agreeable exterior and easy means will be pursued, not merely by a few dozen or score of women, as now, but by whole battalions and brigades of them, and he will be driven in sheer self-defense into very sharp bargaining. Perhaps in the end the state will have to interfere in the business, to prevent the potential husband going to waste.

Earnest

  Despite an earnest and commendable desire to please his father, Martin discovered that he preferred sick machines to sick people and became an engineer instead.

  In any case, it was clear to both of us by now that there was a mutual attraction between us and the courtship began in earnest.

Etiquette

   The only evidence that can decide a case of malpractice is expert evidence: that is, the evidence of other doctors; and every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

Eke out

  In our society, where two legged, two armed strong black men were able at best to eke out only the necessities of life, Uncle Willie, was the whipping boy and butt of jokes of the  underemployed and underpaid. Fate not only disabled him but laid a double-tiered barrier in his path. He was also proud and sensitive. Therefore he couldn’t pretend that he wasn’t crippled, nor could he deceive himself that people were not repelled by his defect.

Expostulations

   He hoped that his kind fellow townsmen would consider him as a neighbor, born and bred among them, and would not pay him so bad a compliment as to treat him ceremoniously. But all his expostulations were in vain. The Hollanders, simple and parsimonious as their ordinary habits were, had set their hearts on giving their illustrious countryman a reception suited to his dignity and to his merit; and he found it necessary to yield.

Ejection

A player or coach who shows poor sportsmanship, for instance, by arguing with a referee or by fighting with another player, can be charged with a more serious foul called a technical foul. Repeated incidents can result in disqualification. Blatant fouls with excessive contact or that are not an attempt to play the ball are called unsportsmanlike fouls and typically will result in ejection.

Encroach

For the most part, they keep their various activities in various compartments, and they can pursue one to the temporary exclusion of the other. They have a faculty of concentration on that which occupies them at the moment, and it irks them if one encroaches on the other. As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times. He had violent passions, and on occasion desire seized his body so that he was driven to an orgy of lust, but he hated the instincts that robbed him of his self possession. I think, even, he hated the inevitable partner in his debauchery. When he had regained command over himself, he shuddered at the sight of the woman he had enjoyed.

Eclipse

Because vice presidents—almost always ambitious politicians—were the greatest threat to presidential power, they were invariably kept in the background. Nixon’s concern then was not unprecedented. But it was excessive and revealed his self doubt and lifelong fear of being eclipsed or having to stand in someone’s shadow. He was incapable of believing that his office and actions as president would ensure his standing at the head of the country, his administration and his party.

Enumerate

When he talked, his hands flashed through the air as he enumerated his point on his fingers. His powers of concentration were greater than ever. He would fix his blue eyes on a listener, compelling attention and respect.

Excrescence

They are all the redundancies of  a rich and liberal character. He is like his own oak, rough without, but sound and solid within; whose bark abounds with excrescences in proportion to the growth and grandeur of the timber; and whose branches make a fearful groaning and murmuring in the least storm from their very magnitude and luxuriance.