Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to be content with institutional plugs, no hard sell. Though one of the hottest salesmen ever to push intangibles, Billy admits: "It would be difficult to break into the middle of a sermon and start selling tooth paste." But Orator Graham may have difficulty convincing a sponsor to accept him on those terms...
...welfare home to await a hearing. Lord John Clarke MacDermott, Northern Ireland's Lord Chief Justice, declaring her a ward of the court, ordered that she attend only regular Presbyterian Church services, address no public meetings. As for her Catholic parents, they would have to accept their Protestant daughter in what MacDermott called his "experiment in toleration...
...building's connected by a glassed-in passageway. Now, with The Hague's burgomaster, planning commission and local architects behind him, Breuer is convinced that by the time the embassy is completed in the fall of 1958, people, including even the steadfast Hagenaars, will be prepared to accept and admire...
...which they can afford to give and take. As it happens, this area is the one which should have been stressed from the start. Ground inspection might be started tentatively in Europe and on non-nuclear projects. Then, as America's courage gathered, it might gradually come to accept an effective plan...
...flatly rejected by the New York Times, which has only token circulation in Britain. Another U.S. newspaper distributed in Britain was expected to agree not to run any stories on British criminal cases without first clearing the copy with Smith's. Other U.S. publications were more likely to accept in Britain, as they do at home, responsibility for the accuracy and legality of what they print and, in effect, provide a person to be sued in British courts. This, plus a promise to indemnify distributors against damages, could leave the distributors free to distribute foreign publications without the "screening...