Word: accept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rained frogs, thousands of little green frogs, in Massachusetts-or so said J. P. Valliere of New Bedford, who said he saw them. A Spokane butcher displayed a sign: "Choice Meats: The Management Will Accept Cash, First Mortgages, Bonds and Good Jewelry." Walter W. Brown of Onawa, Iowa lopped off five toes in his lawn mower, found four, had a doctor sew them on again. Lifeguards at Chicago's Oak Street Beach put on shocking-pink trunks to distinguish them from ordinary bathers...
...magnificent weasel. The Northern bloc, which believed that Congress' power to legislate "human rights" is limitless, could accept it-if it wanted to. So could Southern politicians who firmly believe that certain Negro rights are matters which the Constitution leaves to the states...
Schuman would not accept the amendment nor this kind of one-party dictation to his coalition. He said he would resign if the amendment passed. When the vote came, his Socialist ministers rose from the government benches and resigned to sit and vote with their party. Schuman was beaten...
Secret Weapon. At the last minute, Bernadotte and the Security Council tried to extend the truce before the still rickety war machines of Jews and Arabs could pick up momentum. Israel said it was willing to accept the extension. But the Arab League refused, claiming that the truce was "unworkable and one-sided." In Rhodes, where hard-working Bernadotte had found a little time for play (see cut), he warned both sides. After they had rejected his suggestions for a settlement, he said, "the losing party . . . can no longer hope to get so much . . . They take terrible risks in starting...
...people began to wonder. Following Minister Gardiner's flat announcement that he was running, white-haired Minister St. Laurent declared nobly: "I believe that any member whom the party selects would feel it honorable to accept. I am doing nothing to influence the choice of the party...