Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This Desire of Mine." Harry Truman said what he had said before: he would gladly talk to Stalin-in Washington. Reporter Smith got off a quick message to Moscow: Would Stalin accept the invitation? If not, would he meet the President somewhere else? Stalin's answer was prompt: "To visit Washington has long been my desire," he confided. "I regret that at present I am deprived of the possibility of carrying out this desire of mine, since doctors strongly object to my making any long journey, especially by air or sea." He suggested that Truman come to Russia, perhaps...
Joseph Mindszenty has lived for three years with the threat of martyrdom hanging over him. He knew it and talked about it, and said he was ready to accept it. He even prepared for the form of martyrdom that overtook him last week, the martyrdom devised by King Unericus-the martyrdom of the tongue that could no longer clearly profess that to which he had dedicated his life...
...gave us the assignment and subway fare to Mechanics Hall. The handout, in the best public relations tradition, oozed: "Lovely Ann Curtis, the Olympic swim star, currently appearing at the etc, etc, faces a seathing denunciation at the hands of those vocal undergrads of Harvard if she doesn't accept their bid to the Freshman Smoker. The difficulty began when Ann and her famous Olympic partner, Adolph Kiefer, agreed to perform at the Yale..."You get the angle...
...Reds carried out these instructions to the letter. When the Japanese were defeated by the Allies in 1945, the Communists scrambled to "accept" their surrender. They took over vast areas formerly held by the Japanese, seized huge amounts of Japanese arms...
...accept my gratitude