Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest weapon in the hands of a diplomat." Ike's chief economic adviser, Gabriel Hauge, sympathizes with the Randall view. There are also followers of this line of reasoning within the State Department itself; e.g., Under Secretary of State Christian Herter and Deputy Under Secretary Douglas Dillon accept it, at least in theory. CIA Director Allen Dulles, brother of the Secretary of State, is also in favor. Among Allen Dulles' reasons: even a trickle of U.S.-Red China trade would give his agents great intelligence opportunities in Peking...
...this interpretation, hold that in law the host state has the last word; they add that status-of-forces agreements guarantee rights to the U.S. that it would not otherwise legally possess. Bricker adds that allied countries that want the protection of U.S. forces must in the final analysis accept U.S. military laws-or forego the protection. But this hard-boiled position neglects the fact that G.I.s are deployed in the interest of the U.S. as well as of the allies, at strategic land, sea and air bases around the non-Communist world...
Sophisticated students may ridicule the A and those who seek it. But when they accept a lower mark, perhaps a B-, as minimal for self-respect, they are mislead into believing that B- stands for an important, measurable level of learning...
...program has certain peculiar aspects. The first is that the student is usually without supervision, once he has been accepted in the program. His field, usually History or History and Literature, recommends him for the program for a suggested study project not paralleled by courses. The Committee on Advanced Standing will usually accept the petition...
Immediately after getting elected to the Legislative Council (known as Legco) Mboya welded the seven other newly elected African members into a solid bloc "firmly and unequivocally opposed" to the constitution. Rather than encourage the plan as it stood, the eight refused to accept the two ministerial posts reserved for them in the government, and promptly demanded an additional 15 seats in the council-just enough, Europeans noted, to give them a single-vote majority...