Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...firmly broken. Crowed one Spanish negotiator: "If I refuse to do business with a man simply because I don't like his face or manner, I would not change my mind even if he were to give me his diamond ring to back a deal. If I accept, the question of principle is settled...
...Khedive of Egypt himself, squat, fat and bearded, came personally to Paris to call on Emperor Napoleon III and to invite the Empress to the party; Eugénie was pleased to accept. It was a great moment for both their nations. After ten years of crises, discouragements and setbacks, France's and Egypt's money had finally driven the canal through from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, and it was Eugénie's own cousin, Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had seen the job through. To celebrate the opening, the Khedive had brought together...
Although Missouri law still makes segregation mandatory in public schools, that line may be weakening, too. Recently the Missouri State Teachers Association voted to accept Negro teachers into membership for the first time. Last week, St. Louis' circuit court was deliberating on the case of 20-year-old Marjorie Toliver, who had sued to be transferred from city-operated Stowe Teachers College (for Negroes) to the exclusively white Harris Teachers College, also city-operated. In Columbia this week, students were planning to poll faculty and fellow undergraduates on whether Negroes should be admitted to the University of Missouri...
Buttles refused to accept two of the twelve resignations; he fired the men instead. Dissatisfied with the way things were going, General Clay stepped in. He ordered Colonel Textor to appoint a three-man board of military government employees, all former U.S. newsmen, to ride herd on the Zeitung and, presumably, Publisher Buttles. Their first step was to "reconsider" the firings and resignations. Indignant at having his judgment questioned, Publisher Buttles quit...
Everything is free for families who cannot afford private medical care (rheumatic fever seems to be most common among low-income families). But the hospital first checks carefully to make sure that the mother is willing to accept the burden of caring for a child at home, and that the home is not overcrowded or ill-kept...