Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caught in a political vise, the Administration tried desperately to twist loose. From Walter Reed Hospital came word that President Eisenhower was willing to accept a compromise $500 million increase for the Air Force. As for foreign aid, Republican leaders could only hope that the Senate would heed its own Foreign Relations Committee and slash Administration requests by no more than $400 million this week...
...need necessarily to accept Adenauer's thesis that there have been no significant changes inside the Soviet Union. But there was no better authority than Adenauer on the role of Germany in the Western world: "A free Germany is an absolute necessity for the integration of a free Europe. A free Europe is absolutely essential for the free U.S.-the fate of Europe is inseparably linked up with the fate of the U.S. You must lead us because you are the strongest, but if we others do not firmly stand together . . . then in the long run we will...
...socialism and to abandon the holy right of man to his own conscience, his own dignity, his right to say what he pleases when he pleases . . . is no victory at all ... I knew that the death penalty existed in the Soviet Union ... I knew there were prisons ... I accepted the fact that Jewish culture had been wiped out in Russia; I knew that writers and artists and scientists were intimidated . . . but I accepted this as a necessity of socialism. This I can never accept again, and never again can I accept as a just practice under socialism that which...
...also has a severe and implacable critic. Never again will I remain silent when I can recognize injustice, regardless of how that injustice may be wrapped in the dirty linen of expediency or necessity. Never again will I fail to question, to demand proof. Never again will I accept the 'clever' rationale, which appears to make sense but under scrutiny does...
...More than 100 tax-supported white colleges and universities, half the total in the South, now accept Negroes...