Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...precedence over the law of the U.S." Said Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval Faubus, who was now helped mightily by Judge Lemley's ruling in a primary campaign for an unprecedented third term (TIME, June 23): "Most gratified . . . The Negro citizens in the community would do well to accept this ruling." Little Rock's School Superintendent Virgil Blossom summed up the sentiments of Little Rock's moderates: "I am very pleased...
...June 16). Items: ¶ Republican Gubernatorial Candidate William F. Knowland announced that he would give his "wholehearted and loyal support" to the state Republican ticket in the November elections. ¶ Virtually every G.O.P. candidate-including Senatorial Candidate Goodwin J. Knight, the incumbent Governor-indicated polite but firm refusal to accept Big Bill's kindness. They prefer going it alone, since they think that Knowland's unpopular right-to-work program is hurting party chances, and furthermore, that Nominee Knowland cannot beat Democratic Nominee Pat Brown, who led him by 606,000 votes in the cross-filed primary votes...
...made quite clear, but they nevertheless demanded that he be fired. The Prince refused. He also rejected a resolution which, though couched in almost obsequious language, was actually a rude reminder that the time had come to get on with a little democracy. The Prince huffily replied: "I will accept no limitation of my powers...
...moderate remarks about "federal possibilities" for Algeria, and a cloud of rumors that he was about to receive a government post. Watching him go, the diehards suddenly recognized that there might be more than one explanation for the fact that cold-eyed Jacques Soustelle had always modestly refused to accept leadership of the Algerian Committee of Public Safety...
...Hume told it in last week's Pic: "I was born with a chip on my shoulder as big as an elephant." The "aunt" who raised him turned out to be his mother, who apparently refused to accept him as her son because he had no legal father. As a lad, Hume soon developed the ethic: "If you have an enemy...