Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Methodist school, he taught school for several years. As for the gift of the ball-point pen, I would like to make it clear to you that in Ghana, when a chief sits in state, it is considered discourteous to refuse a gift, however petty. If my father did accept this pen, in the manner in which you reported, he did so out of respect to the American Government and for no other reason...
...Algerian nation cannot accept any solution that does not imply as a primary condition the recognition of its independence." Said Bourguiba: "We just have to end this vicious circle." Added a Moroccan minister: "It's fine to know how to throw a grenade, but you have to know where and when to throw it." With the aid of the Moroccans, whip-sharp Premier Bourguiba began working on a formula of self-determination by which the Algerians might compromise profitably with France, as Morocco and Tunisia had done. Tunis had settled for the formula of "internal autonomy"; for Moroccans...
...acres and an additional 100,000 more bought a few years ago. Alarmed, the Chihuahua government and the Mexican landowners have refused to sell more land. Mexico's federal government has threatened to renege on Obregón's pledge, has tried to force the Mennonites to accept the Mexican social-security system and electrification. Reluctantly, the Mennonites decided that it might be time to move. Teams of Mennonite scouts in recent weeks have traveled to British Honduras, where there is much land for sale, and to Ontario, where the Mennonites already own a vast tract. This week...
...Even if we want the consumers and taxpayers to continue bearing this burden, can we expect them to acquiesce? I believe their reaction to this federal budget shows they are waking up. I believe that, more and more, efficient cotton growers will accept the proposition of a gradual reduction in price-support levels until they lose significance except as what Secretary Benson described as 'disaster insurance'-to be accompanied by complete cessation of Government control over acreage as soon as the present surplus is reduced to manageable proportions. That is the dignified, self-reliant status that proud...
...prove the theory. Researcher Calvin spelled out a delicate test: searching for free electrons in laminated chlorophyll exposed to sunlight. B. Commoner, J. J. Heise and J. Townsend of Washington University at St. Louis were the first to offer evidence that such electrons exist, but critics did not accept their experiment as conclusive. It was performed at room temperature, and under such conditions many chemical processes having nothing to do with photosynthesis can produce free electrons...