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Word: acceptance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accept Kim Novak, Khrushchev, and even Chief Justice Warren on your covers, but I'm afraid I couldn't stand your Althea Gibson cover around the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 9, 1957 | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...cost to Britain and Malaya of $1,680,000,000 and nearly 4,500 lives. "My aim," says Abdul Rahman, "is to bring an end to the Communist terrorists' war by August 31, 1958. We may issue new terms of surrender, and if the Communists do not accept, then they regard this new Federation as an enemy. The new terms will not legalize them, because I know from the experience of other countries that Communists can never coexist with any government. They drove the Nationalist government out of China. They tried to drive the Nationalist Korean government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: A New Nation | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...jury trial compromise could get past the Senate. He talked to Southern Senators-Georgia's Richard Russell, Mississippi's John Stennis, North Carolina's Sam Ervin-and gauged the intensity of their reaction. That night Lyndon and Sam met secretly: the Senate, said Lyndon, would probably accept 30 days in jail and a $200 fine as the dividing line between judicial decree and jury trials in criminal contempt cases having to do with voting rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Compromised Compromise | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...says Woodring, the people themselves "have developed their own unique view of the role of the schools." Though never stated in any complete or coherent form, this view "is based upon our concept of freedom and opportunity for all, and upon our conviction that the individual must accept a large measure of responsibility for his own development and his own behavior. It accepts the principle of competition and the right to enjoy the fruits of individual accomplishment. It holds the state and the schools supported by the state responsible for assuring equal opportunity for the young, not for guaranteeing equality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Time for a Synthesis | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...smuggled in, sold on the black market. The Sunday Express asked angrily: "Why did the Ministry refuse to import the Salk vaccine offered by America [4,000,000 cc., offered last winter]? How can they pretend it is unsafe, yet at the same time allow the privileged few to accept presents of the vaccine from American friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pride Above Polio | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

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