Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Constitution provides that no officer of the U.S. may accept any "present" or "emolument" from any "king, prince or foreign state" without congressional approval. A statute provides that all foreign decorations and gifts to U.S. officials shall be received by the State Department and stored until an act of Congress authorizes delivery. An executive order specifies that delivery may be made only to retired personnel. Result: the State Department has a storehouse full of 6,000 gifts and decorations...
...Fearful Civilians. With Zhukov refusing to accept a face-saving reassignment, Khrushchev was left with only two alternatives: either he must back down or he must utterly crush Zhukov...
Zhukov went straight from the airport to a meeting of the Presidium. By late that afternoon it was clear that he had refused to accept the proffered "promotion," and that the showdown Khrushchev had hoped to avoid was under way. So lengthy was the debate that Khrushchev and other Presidium members who had accepted invitations to an Iranian embassy reception were twice obliged to postpone the hour of their arrival. When they finally did show up, all that came out of the Presidium was the curt announcement that Zhukov had been replaced as Defense Minister by Marshal Rodion Malinovsky...
...Cogito, ergo sum as the basis for a philosophy, neither he nor his successors realized that he actually was assuming that "his private certitude was everyman's certitude in kind." Modern men, taking him at face value, not only plunged "into his subjective depths"; they also tended to accept his belief that the physical universe is merely a mathematical process devoid of purpose and quality or any rapport with man. "With this abandonment of man's native rapport with the whole, the nerve of worth in his own living and acting silently ceases to function. Here, I venture...
...Foundation announced a contest open to clergymen and religious educators of all faiths and offering prizes totaling $40,250 (first: $10,000) for an answer to the questions: "How can man be made and kept conscious of the presence of God within him? How can man be inspired to accept the Partnership of God and practice the presence of God-promote a way of life that gives practical expression to the God-force within him? How can children be made to believe 'God is my ever-present Partner...