Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final the commitment that they and millions of other people had at first hoped for and had then expected through many anxious weeks. The President told Vice President Richard Nixon, Presidential Aides Sherman Adams and Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons, and Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall that he would accept a second term if the party and the people wanted...
...talking with you directly about a decision I made today after weeks of the most careful and devoutly prayerful consideration." Then, reversing the formula that another general, William Tecumseh Sherman, used in 1884, he said: "I have decided that if the Republican Party chooses to renominate me I shall accept the nomination. Thereafter, if the people of this country should elect me I shall continue to serve them in the office I now hold. I have concluded that I should permit the American people to have the opportunity to register their decision in this matter...
...obscurity of these experimental poems seems to have given many critics the impression that poetry cannot be good if it isn't difficult," Muir said. They refuse to accept young poets who find themselves at liberty in a natural tongue, he stated...
...have finally realized, like Wilson, that effective action required knowledge, power, idealism, and willingness to accept responsibilities in a world role, Langer added...
...would be an even more dangerous error for Congress to suggest that nations receiving U.S. aid will eventually accept a foreign policy dictated from Washington. Already, arguments to this effect have boomerang: some Congressmen now cite unchanged neutralist foreign policies as proof that U.S. aid is valueless to this country. Mr. Dulles put the counter argument well: "Our interest will be fully served if other nations maintain their independence and strengthen their free institutions. We have no further aims than these...