Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tired, sick, dispirited man emerged from 10 Downing Street, climbed into his official car, and sped through the chill January darkness to Buckingham Palace. Minutes later, the palace announced that Queen Elizabeth "was pleased to accept" the resignation of Sir Anthony Eden. Swinging out through the palace gates, Eden's black Humber rolled through London's darkened back streets, flashing headlights to warn police of its approach. It stopped opposite the Victorian pile of the Museum of Natural History, where another car waited. A slim, feminine figure in a red cossack hat and pale, loose coat, and carrying...
Excessive flight-time has worried spacemen ever since Jules Verne's "voyage" to the moon in a habitable projectile (see cut). Today's rocket speeds are good for trips in the solar system, but for interstellar voyages they are hopelessly slow. Conservative space enthusiasts accept the speed of light as the absolute speed limit in the material universe, and they know that even at this ultimate speed a spaceship can reach only nearby stars within a human generation. This seems to put a limit on man's interstellar mobility. But some optimistic scientists see hope in "time...
...this week some of the bad and a lot of the good face of Clinton: a stentorian basketball game in a sleek new gym, the nascent philosophy of young Football Captain Jerry Shattuck ("All through life you come up against things you don't like but have to accept"), a simple oration on tolerance by the Rev. Paul Turner. "The people of Clinton thought they learned something from their ordeal," said Narrator Murrow, "and they have cooperated because they thought others might benefit from their experience...
...letter to the Senator urging him to accept the position, the HYDC wrote, "We feel that your influence would enhance the prestige of this important new committee and help coordinate it with Congress...
...rumored that one reason Kennedy had been reluctant to accept the place on the advisory group was that he did not want to antagonize Senator Johnson prior to Senate committee assignments. Tuesday, however, Kennedy received the position he desired, on the Foreign Relations Committee. His chief competitor for that place was Kefauver, who had previously accepted the Advisory Committee appointment...