Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nuts to your biased approach to the Sherri Finkbine case. As mother of none, may I present another angle? I would be only too glad to be given a fifty-fifty chance to bear a normal child. I would gratefully accept a deformed child...
...argument. "In the last 18 months," he said, "we have moved steadily towards the Soviet position. This continual weakening of our position has been accompanied by a growing Soviet intransigence which has seen the Soviets withdraw many points already agreed to. This is no accident. Why should the Soviets accept any United States proposal when every refusal elicits a new United States offer?" The Administration's concessions, said Republican Rockefeller,*"seem to me to run a high risk of endangering our national security...
During his 33-year career, Bohlen has shown a tough turn of mind, an eagerness to accept responsibility and a knack for survival. He mastered Russian in his 20s, served as Franklin Roosevelt's interpreter during the President's long, private talks with Stalin at Teheran and Yalta, and later performed the same duty for Harry Truman at Potsdam. In 1953, when President Eisenhower nominated him Ambassador to Moscow, Bohlen was attacked by Joe McCarthy, who charged that he had helped shape the controversial Yalta agreements. Although Bohlen insisted that he had acted only as an interpreter...
...relieved of his demanding job (he has been counting the days by crossing them off on his desk calendar), Lleras plans to take a rest, then visit the U.S. with his wife for a medical check (he suffered a mild heart attack four months ago). After that, he may accept an offer to be editor of Bogota's new Liberal newspaper. La Tarde, and will enjoy the opportunity "to read a book in peace once again." Says Lleras: "The most important thing my successor will possess is having gained office in a true and open election." In Latin America...
...speed, he argues, even if the Russians (whose space spectaculars are the principal goad that moves Congress to the necessary generosity) should retire wholly from the space race. "When a great nation is faced with a technological challenge," says Scientist Holmes with scientific directness, "it has to accept or go backward. Space is the future of man, and the U.S. must keep ahead in space...