Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acquiescence" was "provisional," depending on how the declaration "is carried out in practice." But as a U.N. diplomat put it in a corridor aside: "Since the U.S. doesn't want war and Britain and France don't want economic sanctions, the only thing we can do is accept what we all know: it's Nasser's ditch...
Instead, charged independent Laos, the Communists have in effect demanded that the free section of the country move into the Communist orbit as the price of integration. For example, the Reds want the independents to accept aid and technical advice from the Chinese Communists and to create a coalition government in which the Communists would get such posts as minister of interior and defense. Moreover, the Communists have been attacking the government's outlying posts, apparently to create pressure for acceptance of their conditions...
Willard Libby was primarily addressing himself to Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the illustrious missionary-physician and Nobel Peace Prizewinner, who had called for an end to H-bomb testing because of the strontium 90 peril. Is it not preferable. Dr. Libby gently asked Dr. Schweitzer, to accept this small risk rather than "the far greater risk, to freedom-loving people everywhere," of slackening "our defenses against the totalitarian forces"-until some method of safeguarded disarmament has been achieved...
Clearly angered by the questions, Moscow abandoned its sweet reassurances and got off a truculent note to Bonn. Unless West Germany is reconciled to winding up as "one big cemetery," warned the Russians, she, too, had better refuse to accept any NATO atomic bases. What was more, there could be no serious talk of German reunification unless Adenauer abandoned his idea of acquiring tactical atomic weapons for his new army...
...exclusively by Nasser's Suez Canal authority, with no advice from anyone. But after weeks of talk in Cairo between Fawzi and U.S. Ambassador Raymond A. Hare, Nasser had gone a considerable way toward meeting the user nations' demands for protection against abuses. His willingness to accept arbitration and the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, his volunteered limitation of toll increases, his undertaking to maintain and improve the canal in accordance with the old company's plans, and his acknowledgement of the old company's rights to compensation, were all clearly stated pledges...