Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempts to convince the landlord to accept foreign and non-white students fail, he is usually taken off the list. Mrs. Clark added, however, that the lack of available apartments precludes removing many listings of this type...
...begin with the letter A to M are cordially invited between 1 and 3 p.m. N to Z people will be welcome between 3 and 4; and various assorted delinquents may feast on what's left of the hors d'oeuvres between 4 and 5. Anyone not deigning to accept the invitation may pay a cheery little fine...
...Gujaratis were willing to accept a bilingual state. Not the Maharashtrians. They demanded their own state, with the city of Bombay as its capital. Last week Nehru proposed a compromise: the state of Bombay would be divided to give each language group a state of its own; the city of Bombay would become a separate, bilingual area administered by the federal government in New Delhi...
India, he declared, should refuse to accept any more...
Again Moscow speaks: the heads of state of the leading free nations are invited to a new meeting at the summit. They accept. There is nothing else to do. Russia has the whip hand at last...