Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government was not slow to accept Conant's offer. By the fall of 1942 over 3,000 Armed Forces personnel were already taking courses at the University. As the number of civilian students continued to decline, it became increasingly clear that a wartime Harvard education was going to differ markedly in its external trappings, if not in its scholastic content, from that offered in peacetime...
...came out, I got the Norfolk legislators in here, and we agreed we just couldn't go along. I called Harry Byrd and I said, 'You're wrong on this. We can't support you.' He said, 'The people of Virginia will never accept desegregation. I'm going to resist this as long as I can.' " Says Norfolk's Democratic Mayor Fred Duckworth: "If we started to integrate, we'd have to give up our state aid, which is $2,000,000 a year, and 20% of the school...
...Workers' Council of Budapest, attempting to negotiate its demands for participation in government and the return of deportees, called a meeting at the Budapest Sports Hall. Serov blocked the way with R men. If he expected the Hungarians to accept this meekly, he was mistaken. Undaunted, the workers gathered in factory yards and planned a united protest. A young boy, one of many braving the R men that day, distributed leaflets on Marx Street: "Don't walk in the streets between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Friday. Stay at home and sympathize with the strike...
...Butler's time for power, and he knew it. "It has been brought to my attention that a certain degree of modesty in my present position would be wise," he told Commons wryly. "During the Prime Minister's absence. I hope that the House will accept it from me that the only words I use are those of the responsibility of a collective and united government...
...fooling around on the handy home-town beaches of Santa Monica, Calif., he was proving himself one of the best ends in the state on Santa Monica High's championship football team and toying with the 12-lb. shot at high-school meets. He decided to accept a football scholarship at U.S.C. (major: business administration), where he got standard financial aid: tuition plus $75 a month for doing a job little more demanding than checking each morning to see that the 50-yd. line was still there. (Later, when he switched to shotputting, Parry's duties consisted...