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Word: acceptance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fair to the rest of the community. Negotiated wage increases should be consistent with productivity prospects and with the maintenance of a stable dollar. And businesses must recognize the broad public interest in the prices set on their products and services." The President added a warning: "Failure to accept the responsibilities inherent in a. free economy could lead to demands that they be assumed by Government. [The result would be] in tervention and loss of freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Spirit of '57 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...Unity of All . . ." More firmly than ever before, the President reassured the world that the American concern was genuine and far-reaching: "We recognize and accept our own deep involvement in the destiny of men everywhere. And beyond this general resolve, we are called to act a responsible role in the world's great concerns or conflicts-whether they touch upon the affairs of a vast region, the fate of an island in the Pacific, or the use of a canal in the Middle East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Beyond OurOwn Frontiers | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...contrast to skinny toothpick legs . . . She has to take Epsom salts for her bowels . . . barbiturates to counteract the effect of coffee and to allow her to sleep." Dr. Lee, a onetime stammerer, states: "People have asked me who psychoanalyzed me out of stammering, and [they] find it hard to accept my answer. I was not psychoanalyzed. I just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 28, 1957 | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...mesons; others, called "theta K mesons," decay into only two pi mesons. For mathematical reasons which physicists can explain only to other physicists, this inconsistent behavior seemed to violate the sacred parity principle. What could be done about it? The experimental evidence was plain, but it was hard to accept. It was as if science found evidence of a material that is repelled rather than attracted by gravitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death of a Law | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...surprise of committee members, who by then were inclined to accept Associate Counsel Julien Sourwine's judgment that "somebody had bobbled," Robert Shelton, 30, refused three times to answer questions about possible Communist affiliations at the subcommittee's open hearings last January. With three other Manhattan newsmen, he invoked the First Amendment (freedom of speech and the press) ; all four were indicted for contempt of Congress (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Man Named Shelton | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

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