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Word: acceptance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europeans who are suspicious of the Marshall Plan-or actively hostile -are card-holding Commies. Some are Communist dupes who find it easier to accept the Kremlin's line: "a plan for the enslavement of the peoples of working Europe by the American imperialists." Others, like British Presslord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, have a different objection. They believe that their countries: 1) can recover through their own efforts from here on; 2) must avoid becoming "dependencies" of the U.S. Said a retailer near London, borrowing a Daily Express theme: "We were wrong in the first place to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Europe in the Spring | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...available figures lend to the Union's case, the terms of the offer to arbitrate are enough in themselves to suggest that labor's side is much the more justified in this dispute. It takes no small amount of confidence in its cause for the Union to agree to accept any three Harvard graduates selected by President Conant as an arbitration board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Time to Arbitrate | 4/10/1948 | See Source »

...fate of the New Student will be decided once for all this afternoon when the Faculty Committee on Student Activities meets to accept or reject the Student Council's recommendations on the controversial magazine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Group to Review Banning of 'New Student' | 4/9/1948 | See Source »

Bingham stated last night he expected to be told that the Faculty group would not accept the Council report. He said that previous conversations with Dean Bender had convinced him that the Administration did not intend to change its position on the New Student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Group to Review Banning of 'New Student' | 4/9/1948 | See Source »

...form a "Korean People's Republic," i.e., an all-Korean Communist regime. Anybody was welcome who for one reason or another did not like the Americans or the free elections they proposed to conduct. U.S. occupation authorities did not restrain any Korean politicians who wanted to accept the invitation. Said one U.S. spokesman: "It might be a good thing for them to go north and find out for themselves how the Soviets operate on the home grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Blood-Boiling Sympathy | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

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