Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Missing from the House last week were two familiar figures, both former Foreign Secretaries. Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, 62, holder of six Cabinet posts in Tory governments and rejected aspirant for the prime ministership when Harold Macmillan resigned, announced that he was leaving his front-bench seat to accept a life peerage and become Master of Cambridge's Trinity College. The Labor Party's Patrick Gordon Walker, disappointed loser in last month's by-election at Leyton, announced that he had also accepted a position in the academic world-as adviser to the Initial Teach ing Alphabet...
Americans are believing a "great myth," Moore said, when they accept the idea that the Vietcong are agents of North Vietnam and that South Vietnamese peasants want to be liberated from the Vietcong...
...department can now exercise its judgment on questions of independent study, agreeing only to the occasional requests it considers reasonable, he explained. If the policy were changed, departments might feel compelled to tell tutors to turn down all requests, rather than accept every plan for reduced course loads...
Only once did Piatigorsky accept an offer to conduct. "Half dead from rehearsals," he recalls, he mounted the Denver Symphony podium and to his horror was informed that he first had to conduct the national anthem. "Somewhat bewildered, I gave a sign to the drummer and let him go on for an unreasonably long time. Majestically I raised my hand for a crescendo, and only when it reached its peak did I recall the national anthem." Returning to his cello, he found it like "a piece of furniture I had never seen before . . . Its import seemed pale in comparison...
...refineries and distribution systems worth $1.85 billion on four continents. Despite its aggressive line drives, ENI has been plagued by problems that have delayed completion of many of its projects and dropped its annual earnings from $10 million to $400,000. Financially pressed, ENI last year was forced to accept ten oil companies as partners in the Trans-Alpine Line-ending forever its dream of monopolizing the Alpine pipelines to squeeze other big oil companies out of Central Europe. In return, it got 20-year commitments from Esso, Shell and British Petroleum to pump 4,000,000 tons of crude...