Word: accept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus isolated, U.S. Steel reluctantly gave in. Wiring his acceptance to the President, Fairless clung to one reservation: "We understand this ... to mean that there is no moral or legal obligation upon us to accept any recommendation which this board may make...
...pact carried no commitment to rearm Europe nation by nation, said Dulles firmly. Under its terms, a council and defense committee would make recommendations. "If the recommendations seem to be advantageous, I assume we will accept them. If they appear to be disadvantageous, we are certainly free to reject them ... I think it is worth something to us that there are brave people close to danger who are willing, if need be, to absorb the first shock of devastating attack ... It is not right to treat such people as mendicants." As for an armament race, "that cannot occur under...
Stopped cold, Van Zeeland stepped out. Regent Charles next asked a less ardent Leopoldist Catholic, Frans van Cauwelaert, to sound out the parties. This time the Socialists cautiously thought they might accept if certain stiff conditions were met: 1) a public statement of charges against the King and his defense; 2) requirement of a 70-75% majority in the plebiscite before the King could return; 3) if the King fails of this majority, he must abdicate...
...done for British health, but in an editorial called "The State Is My Shepherd" McPherrin says that there are "definite signs that it has done something to their faith in themselves." If the U.S. should ever adopt the same kind of a scheme, "we must be prepared to accept the same increases in taxes and government controls. But of much greater significance is the depressing effect upon the spirit of the people. Britons want security, but we do not think they have found it . . . To the extent that any man accepts the doctrine that the State alone can bring...
...bigger schoolmate, the loser complained: "Yes, if I got broth to eat twice a week the way you do, I'd be as strong as you are." From that time on, Albert's broth stuck in his throat. He was punished repeatedly because he refused to accept such advantages as an everyday overcoat, new gloves, or leather shoes, which poorer boys did not have...