Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President pointed up the whole letter and brought in a new point: "I have not forgotten your proposal having to do with stationing inspection teams at key points in our countries, and if you feel this would help to create the better spirit I refer to, we could accept that...
...time for Joe to make his decision about entering the church, and it was a decision he faced with dreadful seriousness. Ann, a devout church member, had no intention of marrying an unconverted man. She talked with him for hours about the Bible, pleaded with him to accept the faith. Joe lashed around in his Bible late into the nights, reading time and again Proverbs 27:12: "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished." After a year of inner turmoil, Joe slipped away one weekday and drove to the home...
...under her authority. We mean by this service, primarily education, both moral and material. The end of a well-conducted education must be the emancipation of the educated subject, who has become capable of governing himself through the very activity of his teachers. The Church, therefore, could not accept taking sides with those who hold colonialism as a permanent fact, who lean both on the prestige and material advantages which the mother country draws from her colony and on the pessimistic judgment [that] colored people [are] inferior to their European masters and incapable of ever finding their own happiness...
...Would he care to be Bürgermeister of Bremen, the colonel asked. "No," Kaisen snorted through his mustache, "the Nazis destroyed this well-ordered state. They are the ones who should have to rebuild it." The colonel returned with some prominent Bürger. They persuaded Kaisen to accept...
...prevented both CBS and local stations from obtaining a suitable sponsor for the games. He also blamed CBS for not making the Dartmouth game available until his station had already scheduled programs for Saturday afternoon, and the University for putting "severe restrictions" on the types of sponsor it would accept for Crimson games...