Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even then the women might have subsided if Hartini had been content to accept the modest status of second wife. But she briskly moved her whole Solo household and her five children into Bogor Palace, began to entertain old friends, receive officials and carry on for all the world like Indonesia's First Lady, while Fatmawati shrank into the background. Whenever Soekarno traveled, Hartini traveled with...
...turn and march off. They waited on officials, demanding that they snub her. To one irate delegation, Premier Harahap explained that on one occasion he had intended only to shake hands with the President. But Hartini determinedly went up to him with outstretched hand. "What could I do but accept her hand!" bleated Harahap...
...these success stories Promoter Kramer should have a few more to add after his next pro tour is over. Trabert is guaranteed $75,000, Hoad and Rosewall, if they accept, $45,000 apiece. Promoter Kramer expects to net the better part of $250,000 after paying expenses...
...Because the shortage of priests is such that we cannot replace the reverend father in question, [the suspension will stay in force] until the members of these communities express their willingness to accept . . . whatever priest or priests we find it possible to send them...
...doctors, these signs of mental healing are as important as the surgical gains. Although facial deformities are being improved, and the use of frozen hands and limbs gradually restored, plastic surgery can never totally efface the marks of the terrible seconds under the bomb. Shigeko and the others quietly accept this fact. Said one of the girls to an interpreter shortly before she was wheeled into the operating room: "Tell Dr. Barsky not to be worried because he cannot give me a new face. I know that this is impossible, but it does not matter; something has already healed here...