Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lemnitzer paid an unscheduled visit to another possible site only eleven miles from Brussels, but it has an unfortunate name for a military bastion-Waterloo. Should the general accept Chièvres, farmers of the region will be no happier than he. One native, whose land stands to be plowed under, muttered: "I used to throw nails on the road during the war to give the Nazis flat tires. If Chape comes I'll throw some more...
...were flops in Czechoslovakia, undoubtedly because of the guilty consciences of the people depicted. They chose to ignore the book and to walk out of the movie in mid-performance. Only the success of the film in the U.S. has changed this lethargy into a willingness at least to accept the honors...
...emergency board could study the dispute. Chaired by Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse, a partisan of organized labor, the board ultimately recommended a wage-benefit increase of 3.6%, a notch above L.B.J.'s 3.2% anti-inflationary wage-price guideline. Johnson was pleased nonetheless, urged both labor and management to accept the board's terms. The five airlines-Northwest, TWA, Eastern, United and National-agreed, but the I.A.M. turned thumbs down, went on strike July 8. "I have done everything within my power," moaned the President...
...will enable us to meet the particular problems of the individual publisher." Just as predictably, John J. Gaherin, president of the Publishers Association -an organization whose very existence is threatened by the ruling-announced plans for an appeal, perhaps to the U.S. Supreme Court, which can accept or reject the case as it pleases. Though it was a unanimous 3-to-0 opinion, the lower-court judges were frankly uneasy. "I fear," wrote Judge Irving R. Kaufman, "that our decision will not alleviate, and might, perhaps, exacerbate the antagonisms which have been the antithesis of labor-management peace...
...hemline dropped like a bomb. "It would be fatal!" cried one British designer. "I've just made my spring collection-all short. Shops have just ordered their autumn stock-all short." Protested a Bond Street fashion buyer: "The leggy feeling is still strong, and nobody is going to accept a drastic change...