Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Save the Marshall Plan says yes, then we believe it is taking an ineffective political stand. This position assumes that it is best to float with the stream, ever hopeful that things won't be too bad. If the Committee to Save the Marshall Plan admits that they will accept E.R.P. even without the basic changes, then the reactionaries will inevitably realize that the proposal amendments needn't be taken seriously. Thus it is a question of backing up fundamental aims with conclusive action rather than wishful drifting. Executive Committee Harvard Committee for Wallace
Improvident Family. Even if Cripps persuades the trades unions to accept a wage freeze, he must take Britons over still harder jumps. The bluntest warning of their probable nature came, not from any government leader, but from the London Economist. "Britain has been living like an improvident family," it wrote, "which, failing to make both ends meet, first spends the accumulated capital of the past, then borrows from friends . . . and when their loans are exhausted, begins to pawn the furniture. . . . When a family faces bankruptcy, either it goes under to a life of perpetual makeshift and pauperism, or it restores...
...startled Poles did not accept...
...week's end, myopic little Dmitri Shostakovich marched to the platform. He knew his lines well: he had been bawled out before. Said he: "I accept the Central Committee's decree, particularly regarding myself, as stern but fatherly care. ... A worthy reply . . . may be achieved by work-stubborn, creative, joyous work ... on new compositions which will find a path to the heart of the Soviet people." Shostakovich was the last to recant; now all Soviet composers could go on with their joyous labors...
...thing. It is really one of the biggest hits of our lifetime. I've never seen anything like this before in the theater. I practically choked. Why, a man said he'd write me a check for a million dollars for the screen rights. I wanted to accept just so I could see what a check for a million dollars looked like. But we want to do the thing ourselves in Hollywood some day, so we're not selling...