Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...developed in the execution of those contractual arrangements, including such things as the amount of freedom for individual research given to professors under A.I.D. contracts, the reluctance of universities to release faculty members for long-term A.I.D. programs, and the loss of tenure and status for professors who do accept prolonged A.I.D. assignments...
...number of army commanders, few of whom are truly loyal to Diem, would presumably be ready to take over, and they might conceivably be more ready to accept U.S. advice than Diem. Should his brother be eliminated, it is also generally assumed that Nhu himself would make a bid for power, and some Americans think that he might be more efficient, having shown administrative ability in the strategic-hamlets program. But the U.S. still doubts that any of the available alternatives to Diem would be a real improvement. American policymakers also suspect that a coup would only...
...Saigon has been totally committed to Diem. The U.S. is hopeful?but not overly confident?that Lodge can make Diem more receptive to U.S. advice. Whatever Diem does, there is at least one South Vietnamese leader who will listen to advice with a ravishing smile, and probably refuse to accept it. Mme. Nhu is eagerly awaiting Lodge's arrival. Noting his middle name, she says: "We hear that in his family, they talk only to God." Told the same was said of her family, she replied: "In that case, I hope we will talk together, with God in the middle...
...comes home rich, and her world collapses. He no longer needs her consolation, he no longer needs her cash. He is free, a man. She has nothing but herself, an emptiness that only he can fill. He tries to. He buys her expensive dresses; she refuses to accept them. He clears away the mortgage; she says she hates the house. He hands her a ticket to Europe; she swears she will not go. What does she want? Her sister thinks she knows: "You want to sleep with him. You always have." But the audience knows better: she really wants...
...clear now that the popular image of Yevtushenko is largely the product of over-zealous western imagination, eager for some sign of the decay of Soviet society. On the contrary, the phenomenon of Yevtushenko is a sign of vigorous health. It means Soviet society is beginning to accept the important doctrine that "a strong man is not afraid of showing his weaknesses...