Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Announced that President Eisenhower, invited by Nehru to visit India, has "no plan" to do so in 1957. Explained the White House: although Ike would like to accept, a visit to one country would entail time-consuming visits to many others along...
...students and intellectuals enjoy a special place in Communist regimes, providing the reservoir of skill and talent on which the bureaucracy continuously draws. A friend remembers Janos as saying before the revolt: "The workers and the peasants hate the regime because they know it is wrong and evil. They accept this and go on working. But we intellectuals are paid to lie about the regime. The workers know we lie, and so they hate us too. But the truth is we hate ourselves for lying...
Although Athens intimated that Makarios had turned down the plan, the British (who control the flow of information from the Seychelles) insisted that their two emissaries were still "explaining" the proposed constitution to Makarios. If Makarios were to accept the plan, with reservations, and utter some noises unfavorable to continued terrorism, the British indicated, they would return him to Cyprus. Last week, to the dismay of the Greeks, the U.S. State Department put in a word for the British proposal as "a first step" toward a peaceably negotiated settlement...
...indications were that the Corporation would accept the recommendation of the highly respected Faculty Committee on Athletics, and one member of the committee said he felt it was "inconceivable" that the advice would not be accepted...
...House. In Milwaukee, Internal Revenue officials, agreeing to accept $23,000 plus a percentage of her future income in settlement for $81,656 in back taxes from Mae Yager, 67, a bawdyhouse proprietress, explained that the arrangement might prove more profitable than a forced sale of Madam Yager's assets...