Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slow in coming; the point is to emphasize to India's leader that the problems of Europe are different from those of Asia, and that the NATO alliance, backed by rifles and regulars, is one key to the containment of Communism in Europe. Asians have always been slow to accept the fact that the Soviet Union's satellites are satellites, and if the former military commander of NATO can help to change this attitude, it will have been a lesson well worth teaching...
...Said the President on Oct. 31: "We believe these actions [Suez] to have been taken in error, for we do not accept the use of force as a wise or proper instrument for the settlement of international disputes. To say this, in this particular instance, is in no way to minimize our friendship." *The British Broadcasting Corp. taped his speech for later rebroadcasting to Britain...
Chris Herter's life has been shaped for his new job. Born in Paris of American parents, he studied interior decoration in New York, left to accept a minor post with the U.S. embassy in Berlin in 1916. At the Versailles conference, he served as aide to U.S. Delegate Joseph Clark Grew, later became executive secretary of the European Relief Council and traveled around ravaged Europe with Relief Chief Herbert Hoover...
...That'll Teach Yuh." The town election last week offered a test of the segregationists' strength; they backed candidates for mayor and three aldermanic posts against men who were willing to accept integration. The Rev. Paul Turner offered another test; he announced that on election day he would escort Negro children from their homes to Clinton high school. Even as Clinton's voters were moving to the polls, Paul Turner walked slowly up Foley's Hill, where he was met half way by six Negro boys and girls...
What was the precise charge levied against them? "As far as I can see," said a judge denying bail, "it is one that involves many ramifications ... It is not unreasonable to accept the probability that it is both difficult and inadvisable for the Attorney General to take the court more fully into his confidence...