Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ministerial Swap. At 75, Ho is the senior Communist leader in Asia. Red China's Mao Tse-tung was still a party underling in 1923 when Ho was tapped by Stalin to lead the revolution in Asia. Though Mao now swings more weight, Ho is reluctant to accept him as any kind of overlord, subtly and cautiously tries to play Mao off against the Russians in order to secure greater freedom of action for himself. Says one Western diplomat admiringly: "The older Ho gets, the more skilled he becomes at playing one man against another, one faction against another...
...strike that shut down the city's papers for 114 days and hastened the New York Mirror to its death. Contract negotiations that had run on since October began to run down. Even though the Newspaper Guild and four other unions had tentatively agreed to accept management's top offer of a $10.50 raise spread over two years, Bert Powers, flinty head of Local 6 of the International Typographical Union, wanted more. And the adamant boss of the "Big Six" was well remembered as the architect of the last strike...
...bombings will not help induce our adversaries to accept compromise." Hoffmann said, since they do little to "bring the common interest in peace of powers outside [Southeast Asia] to bear upon...
...argues in the current issue of Union's Quarterly Review, is to fall into the ancient heresy of Docetism, which held that Christ's body was merely a phantom, and to accept the puritanical and wholly unBiblical notion that sex is sinful. "To put it bluntly," Driver argues, "a sexless Jesus can hardly be conceived as fully human...
...passengers for technical reasons. What reasons? The officer explains to them that two of the ship's company are ill with a rare form of typhus. The passengers split into two distrustful groups-one angrily determined to find the freighter's secret, the other willing to accept the typhus explanation and make the best of the well-stocked bar. As the voyage broods on to mutiny, the division widens. On one side, pride parades as honor; on the other, moral cowardice masquerades as good sense. The cruise ends abruptly when one of the insurgent passengers is shot. Cortazar...