Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soviet willingness to buy Egypt's cotton at uneconomic prices gives its salesmen a vital edge. Thus a French firm that was a low bidder on a contract for diesel engines lost out when Hungary promised to accept payment for the job in cotton. All told, cotton shipments account for 90% of Egypt's total exports. This year the Soviet bloc will take well over half of them...
Americans have learned to accept, if not quite to understand, the strange delirium that takes place when a frail-looking crooner confronts a crowd of bobby-soxers. But to an English critic, the phenomenon still takes getting used to. Drama Critic J. B. Boothroyd covered the performance of U.S. Crooner Johnnie ("Cry") Ray at London's famed old Hippodrome and wrote the following clinical report im Punch...
Mendes tried to delay elections by demanding electoral reforms first. Faure blandly said he would accept any one of a dozen proposed electoral plans before the House, but demanded a vote of confidence on elections soon. He won, 330-211, with the help of 88 Communist votes. Presumably the Communists would just as soon have an early election while the spirit of Geneva is still in the air and voters everywhere are grumbling about the Saar, North Africa; the draft and the high cost of living...
Night Plight. In Ventura, Calif., haled into court for driving without lights, Mrs. Florence Sandberg was allowed a month's time to choose between a fine or a jail term when the judge refused to accept her defense: "I can see like...
Hinging upon tonight's decision is the status of Luigi Einaudi '57, who was elected New England president of the NSA at its regional meeting Saturday in Newton. According to NSA rules, Einaudi cannot accept his new post if the College breaks its tie with the Association...