Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lessening of the tensions which flow in part from huge growing armaments can be achieved." Russia's Sobolev said that he was ready "to cooperate ... in the solution of these important tasks which brook no delay." But when the Russians were asked to say whether they would accept or reject the U.S. plan, smiling and agreement ceased...
...just want to reminisce about the past." said Mamoru Shigemitsu, 68, Foreign Minister of Japan. "We want to talk about the future." Ten years before, to the day, they had met aboard the Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Shigemitsu to sign the surrender of Imperial Japan, MacArthur to accept...
When Mendes-France offered home rule last year after a long series of strikes and counterdemonstrations, Habib Bourguiba, 52, a Paris-trained lawyer and probably the ablest and most farsighted North African political leader, emerged from some ten years of French exile and imprisonment to accept. Tunisia was significantly quiet during the Moroccan eruption...
...Accept any gift, loan or entertainment that tends to influence the performance of official duty...
...labels say," explains the mate) in a cutthroat poker game with three lugubrious seamen, he offers 1) his ship, and 2) a monumentally configured and barely clothed native girl that he happens to own, in one last, grand gamble. The other players spurn the ship at first, but accept when the dame is offered as collateral. Etienne's bet: a trapped fly will light on his lump of sugar, rather than his opponents...