Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next week, before the Disarmament Subcommittee of the U.N., the U.S. will make its first attempt since the Geneva Conference to reach a limitation of arms agreement with the Russians. Once more the U.S. will ask the Russians to accept President Eisenhower's proposal to exchange military secrets and the right to photograph each other's territory from the air. The U.S. is ready to accept a Russian plan to station disarmament inspectors of each country at harbors, rail junctions and airfields of the other country; but the U.S. will also insist that the inspectors visit atomic-weapon...
...Eisenhower in 1952, put it on record that he will bolt again if Stevenson runs again in 1956. "I don't think he is suitable timber," Shivers explained. "I don't think he has the qualifications from any standpoint." Rather than support Stevenson, said Shivers, he would accept "practically anybody" the Republicans nominate, but he especially eulogized Ike for doing "an outstanding job" as President. "He has brought peace . . . Today we have both peace and prosperity. A few years ago many thought it could not be done." Did he intend to lead another Southern revolt against Stevenson...
...army to march north, but it was thoroughly alarmed at the prospect of a South Korean attack on the neutral commission. In Washington, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles warned the South Koreans that the principle of "nonviolence," which the U.S. is trying to get the Red Chinese to accept, applies equally to U.S. allies. Meanwhile, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, the U.S. and U.N. supreme commander in the Far East, flew to Seoul and told Rhee to his face that "neither hell nor high water" would persuade the U.S. to renege on its solemn commitment to abide by the Korean...
...audiences ever assembled for purposes of unabashed materialism, Gino Prato, the humble Bronx shoemaker, softly read aloud a cablegram from his papa in Italy, roughly translated: "It is enough. Stay where you are." Said Gino: "Because I take my daddy's advice since I was a kid, I accept it now . . . and take...
...delivered a proposition from their chief: the girl was his, but if there were no sons, the explorer must give his breeches to the chief. "To refuse point blank would have insulted the whole tribe," explains doughty British Explorer "Mike" Hedges. "On the other hand, I obviously could not accept." What to do in this social dilemma? Mike turned to Lady ";Mabs" Richmond Brown, a venturesome British aristocrat who had accompanied him to the Central American wilderness. Lady Mabs, Mike told the headman of the tribe, was already his bride, so that he could not "by the laws...