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Word: acceptance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would run. (Six weeks ago, at Key West, eleven out of 14 thought that he would not run.) In Washington, House Minority Leader Joe Martin was ready to go all the way out on the limb, flatly predicted: "Come March 1, the President will say, 'I shall accept the nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Promise of Spring | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...mostly by journalists and Democrats) that Eisenhower, if he runs again, might drop Nixon from the ticket. Next question: If not Nixon, who? In Washington, as guest of honor at a National Press Club lunch. Massachusetts Governor Christian A. (for Archibald) Herter (TIME, Feb. 20) was asked: "Would you accept No. 2 place on the ticket?" Pointedly, Herter replied: "I would like to be excused from answering that. The President is entitled to have the man he chooses . . . Dick Nixon is a good friend of mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Suspense | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...furious Frenchmen circled his refuge in the Palais d'Eté, honking their horns, Mollet admitted shakily to newsmen: "I saw in their faces the look of total miscomprehension and hatred." His hands trembled, and his voice was little more than a whisper. His first retreat was to accept the resignation of 79-year-old General Georges Catroux, whom he had appointed Minister for Algeria (TIME, Feb. 13). Catroux' appointment had been a political blunder in the first place. To Algerian French, Catroux was "the liquidator'' of France's presence in Syria and Lebanon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Algiers Speaking | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...more likely than an adult to act out his hostile and aggressive impulses, instead of merely talking them out, because deeds are more natural to him than words. In a mental hospital this sometimes makes the child patient* a demon of destructiveness, and many institutions refuse to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Children's Mental Hospital | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...govern College groups. Above-board disagreement and rivalries are fine, but underhanded efforts to subvert another club's speakers and activities should certainly be prohibited. This is so obvious that it should not have to be repeated, but evidently there are those presently leading College organizations who do not accept common standards of fair play. If every group employed tactics similar to those of the Republican head, student activities would find speakers leaving Harvard to its bickering politicos...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Thomson's Tactics | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

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