Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then Secretary of Commerce] . . . from speaking on foreign affairs ... if it is not completely clear in your own mind that Mr. Wallace should be asked to refrain from criticizing the foreign policy of the United States while he is a member of your Cabinet, I must ask you to accept my resignation...
...impatience or bad temper by others gives him amusement. At such times it is interesting to watch his serious, solemn expression as he protests his innocence of any provocation." Molotov was a stickler for procedure. His favorite word was: "Nyet" ("No"), which Byrnes heard so often "I almost accept it as part of my own language. He can say in English, 'I agree,' but so seldom does he agree that his pronunciation isn't very good...
...leaflets offered amnesty to all who would turn in their guns. But in the northern hills "the word" had come by Radio Moscow, straight from the editorials of Pravda and Izvestia: no compromise; the fight goes on. Only a few hundred had trooped in from their hideouts to accept the amnesty which "liberals" in Western countries had demanded. Scoffed the Communist organ Rizospastis: "We welcome the leaflets which make badly needed tobacco wrappers, notepaper, fire starters and other essential if unmentionable tissue...
...nation Arab League, meeting in a resort hotel overlooking Beirut and the Mediterranean, had reached a tactical decision. With eyes on the debate in U.N., they manifestoed: Arab states would "take military precautions on the borders of Palestine." League spokesmen said troops would move up immediately. "Arabs will never accept partition," said Lebanese Premier Riad al-Sulh...
Last week Curtis got off the wagon and for the first time decided to accept liquor ads, but only in 20-month-old Holiday. It has a different kind of readership from its more sedate Curtis sisters-and a different-looking balance sheet. Said President Fuller: "To add this new classification . . . will increase Holiday's serviceability both to its advertisers and readers." It might also help Curtis put money-losing Holiday in the black...