Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor Party fathers touchily replied: "You really must accept our word that our experts know what we are doing...
...that England, France, and the United States have written an occupation statute for the Western German State, a satisfactory constitution must be drawn up by a convention of German politicians at Bohn. At this convention the Social Democratic Party has refused to accept Allied proposals on the constitution because it thinks the directives make for a future weak central government. While Social Democrats claim that a weak state cannot be economically successful or properly defend itself against aggression, their opponents at Bonn, the Christian Democrats, want the weak central government as proposed. This dispute has deadlocked the convention...
...Dean's Office will accept group applications for the brick dormitories this year as well as from sophomore groups obliged to move into off-quad houses...
...like fragile Christians . . . For some time to come, Communists will be too busy in military operations, in the training of workers, and in conferences of various kinds, to pay much real attention to the churches. Should the churches not take the opportunity thus afforded to show their determination to accept the challenge wholeheartedly? . . . Communism is man's challenge to Christianity, but it is also God's judgment upon flabby churches . . . When it is proved that Christians can accept . . . criticisms and prove them to be unsound and untrue, thoughtful Communists will sit up and take notice...
...Court. On the evidence given in Dry Messiah alone, most readers will probably conclude that he was guilty as charged by church and state. But thousands of prohibitionists were ready to accept the denials of the man who had done so much to whip the saloon. Cannon's favorite tactic was to sue his detractors for huge amounts in libel suits that he tried to settle for small amounts out of court. In his day he sued a Congressman for $500,000 and William Randolph Hearst for a total of $7,500,000. He lost the one, settled...