Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United Nations, the Arab-Russian disillusionment reached its apex. Discouraged by their unsuccessful attempt to get the General Assembly to demand the withdrawal of all Israeli forces from Arab territory, the Russians, with American encouragement, tried to persuade the Arabs to accept a resolution that tied withdrawal to recognition of Israel. The Arabs indignantly turned it down. When Russia and the U.S. then voted with a majority of the Assembly to send the entire Middle East issue back to the Security Council, the Arabs accused the Russians of betraying them, promised to carry on the fight on their...
...system of shopping: the customer prices the item he wants, then pays for it in advance at the cashier's desk, returns to the display counter with receipt in hand to claim his purchase. Much better bargains are available to Americans at the "dollar shops" (called Beriozka), which accept foreign exchange only, in return offer large discounts on everything from black caviar (81? an ounce) to folk...
...small short-wave radio for picking up the BBC or Radio Free Europe (the only English-language sources of non-Party-lining news) and an assortment of gifts. Tipping is officially not allowed, and many Russians are insulted by the offer of money. But Intourist guides gratefully accept paperback editions of Hemingway, Faulkner and Salinger, jazz records, makeup, ballpoint pens and chewing...
...suggested Press Critic Ben Bagdikian, offer dying papers for sale at a fair market price to independent buyers? To which Jack Howard replied that he and his co-publishers tried to give away the dying New York World Journal Tribune last spring, but there were no takers. "Nobody would accept it as a gift," said Howard. Whether Congress believes the Failing Newspaper Act is the way to rescue insolvent papers remains to be seen. A decision is still innumerable witnesses away...
...report or only two. Proponents of the report figured that if President Eisenhower rejected the findings, one of the 200 "secret" copies would surely be leaked to the press, carrying the battle to the public. They were correct: the larger printing was made, the President did not accept the report, and within days the Washington Post had published the gist...