Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate, voted to over-ride. And among those who voted to pass the Act were many Democratic Senators who now control important posts--Johnson, George, Fulbright, Byrd, Eastland--as well as both Knowland and Bridges. If the President puts his full authority behind the changes, however, Congress should accept some, even if not all, the proposals. In the past when the President has fully utilized his popularity--on such issues as Reciprocal Trade and the Bricker Amendment--he has generally had his way. The President has shown that he is not just whistling for immigration reform; he should now demonstrate...
...roundabouts and negatives to make the eyeballs twirl, said in effect that Britain is not unwilling to negotiate some form of "self-determination" for Cyprus if the islanders "sincerely cooperate" in arranging a gradual change to self-government. Makarios replied with a letter to Sir John that he would accept this as "a basis for continuing our joint efforts toward a solution." It would be difficult not to: the British proposal is practically the same as Makarios offered them four months ago (and the British then refused...
...sturdiest military opponent of the golpistas was majestic, stony-faced Lieut. General Henrique Teixeira Lott, War Minister under President João Café Filho, Vargas' successor. No great admirer of Kubitschek, non-political General Lott felt, nevertheless, that the army's clear duty was to accept the voters' decision and uphold the constitution. With most of the key army commanders on his side, Lott had enough firepower to keep the anti-inauguration camp from even trying to bring off a golpe-so long as he remained War Minister. To be on the safe side, Lott...
Faith Healer Coe angrily lumped Taft and the Herald with the Devil. But at week's end he had yet to accept the challenge, inspired by Taft's stories, of three ministers of the Miami Churches of Christ. They offered to pay Coe $2,500 if his "faith healing" would cure anyone who had been duly certified as ill by two physicians, and then certified as cured...
...anything, could be done to prevent it. Certainly the subsequent condemnation of the riots by many student groups--including the men's and women's Student Governments, the students of the law school, a council of religious organizations--indicates that a large number of students was ready to accept Miss Lucy--if only as a necessary evil...