Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nice to know that Hussein feels "Israel is probably there to stay." It would probably be appropriate if the boy king would search his memory to recount the many times Israel has offered the Arabs compensation in exchange for a peace pact. To accept refugees in Israel at this stage of the game would be as unrealistic as our country's granting entry to 900,000, or even 960 Communists. As for rectifying "unrealistic borders," Israel has urged that-not in 1956, but in 1949 and on and on and on. Lip service by Arab leaders...
...last week, the chamber was sealed off for a closed caucus of Republican members. "We simply cannot send this bill to the President," Massachusetts' gnarled Joe Martin told the waverers among his colleagues. "It's a bad bill, and I'm sure he won't accept it." On the other side, Texas' egg-bald Sam Rayburn and other Democratic leaders were telling the doubtful among the Democrats that the bill might provide the only way to get a Democrat elected President in November. A key proposition in the Democratic reasoning: if Congress should pass...
...Central Intelligence Agency's privileged hush-hush irritates many a Congressman, and Montana's well-meaning Senator Mike Mansfield had little diffi culty in finding 34 co-sponsors last January for his resolution proposing a joint congressional watchdog committee over CIA. Said Mansfield thoughtfully: "If we accept this idea of secrecy for secrecy's sake, we will have no way of knowing whether we have a fine intelligence service or a very poor...
...Dublin gallery was delighted. "It looks as though we'll get our pictures one by one, doesn't it?" he said. By the following day, however, the first fine careless rapture subsided. A member of the Dublin City Council announced that it "would certainly not accept a picture obtained in such a manner." "We have an irrefutable moral claim to the picture," said an Irish government spokesman, "but it is scarcely necessary to say that the government thoroughly disapproves of the [students'] action...
...executed." Asking "what false theories . . . played a part in the violations," the Worker provided its own answer (like Communists all over the world), in a virtual admission of complicity in Stalin's crimes. Said the Worker: "For our part, we frankly admit we were too prone to accept the explanation of why Jewish culture had disappeared in the Soviet Union in the late 1940s...