Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kremlin at the May 11 conference. Its outline, subject to some reshaping at another Big Four meeting in Paris at month's end: 1) the West would offer such "military concessions" as beginnings of disarmament in small zones of Germany, provided-a big provision-that the Russians accept inspection and work toward a general disarmament-with-inspection plan. This would be offered in return for 2) such "political concessions" as Kremlin agreement to make a start on German reunification. Both sides would encourage more contacts between West Germany and East Germany; the West would not recognize East Germany before...
...formal letter of resignation to President Eisenhower, was turned down again. Reason: the Quemoy crisis was brewing, and Robertson's resignation might be read by Red China to mean a softening of the U.S. position. Last week, when ailing Walter Robertson, 65, finally persuaded the President to accept his resignation effective July 1, he got a warm letter from the President, treasured most a sentence that read: "The policies which you have helped develop form a significant part of our broad national policy...
Paul Butler, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, recently stated that the South will have to accept a strong Civil Rights plank because the bulk of the party will not compromise. Though pronouncements of this sort are never certain, there appears to be strong sentiment among liberal Democrats not to appease the South again...
Another way beleagued Harvard apologists explain the "smartness" of their Radcliffe counterparts concerns admissions and the old economic law of selectivity. Radcliffe, with entering classes of about 300, naturally can accept a higher percentage of the "cream of the crop" than Harvard, which admits a class of 1100, so the argument runs...
While approving the sense of these recommendations, members of the Council tabled a motion to accept the report in order to discuss the matter with their constituents...