Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another reply, Foreign Minister Molotov charged the U.S. press with daily "lying and slanderous articles regarding the U.S.S.R. and its statesmen." The Russian Government, he said disingenuously, "cannot bear the responsibility for this or that article, and so much the more, cannot accept the protest you have made." Translated from the Russian, that could mean only one thing: Russia's rulers meant this one for the record...
...Employers may not dismiss a "directed worker," nor "hire or try to hire" new personnel except through the Government. Maximum punishment for infractions: ?100 ($400) fine or three months in prison. Cooed Minister Isaacs: ". . . It will be necessary to force only a small minority to accept essential jobs against their will...
Though he was a winning Republican, he was anathema to most G.O.P. leaders. He infuriated party regulars by his association with socialists and other radicals-one of his proteges was Communist-line Vito Marcantonio-and by his refusal to accept Republican platforms. The party's silk-stocking element was frankly appalled by him-a noisy little man whose feet dangled when he sat on a chair, who needed a shave, who walked in picket lines and smelled of garlic. When he was finally beaten for Congress in 1932, the party sighed with relief. It seemed that his career...
Shattering all remnants of its predecessor's reputation as far for the female literate, Signature will accept contributions from Harvard students and take male members onto its staff...
...find room where none was thought to exist, the House Masters have proceeded on a non-compulsory program, hoping that present members will volunteer to crowd up even further. A proportionate rent reduction has been offered to men who accept a third or fourth roommates...