Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the fact that the Council adopted almost a score of compromise amendments in an attempt to remove Soviet objections, Soviet delegate Nikolai Feonov declared that Russia could not accept the plan in its present form. He was supported by Ukrainian Delegate Lev Madved and Yugoslav Delegate Leo Maties
...state [TIME, Aug. 19] that new applicants to U.N. "merely had to be peace-loving." The other two, and possibly more important requirements (Art. 4, par. 1) read as follows: [Must] "accept the obligations contained in the present Charter" and "in the judgment of the Organization are able and willing to carry these...
Some 15,000 drivers of three teamster locals were out of control. They shouted down their leaders' pleas to accept one proffered settlement, shouted down proposals to return to work pending an agreement on wages & hours. They blocked many nonstriking drivers from working. They had just about choked off the metropolitan area's supplies of food when Dan Tobin stepped into the situation. He telegraphed an order: the nonstriking unions must abide by their contracts; sympathy walkouts must...
...American Chemical Society in Chicago, the combination was hailed as a lifesaver. The reason: thousands of G.I. ex-prisoners of the Germans might have died in U.S. rehabilitation camps but for the discovery that the stomach of a starving man, which rejects meat, cheese or whole milk, can accept much-needed protein in its blandest form...
...from Hearts & Flowers. Like many Hollywood artisans, Rozsa belittles the work that brings him big money. "My style," he says, "has little to do with what I write for pictures. The public is only gradually becoming willing to accept more mature musical ideas. This doesn't mean I am discouraged. Years ago you expected to hear Hearts and Flowers.... In ten years we will be able to write just the way we do for Carnegie Hall...