Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vast Concealment. Pausing at regular intervals to accept the endorsement of his hearers, Bulganin gently praised the West and the new atmosphere, but for the most part emphasized the unchanged stand of the Soviet Union on all foreign-policy questions, particularly Germany and the satellite states. Then he came to the point where he was bound to give an answer to the forthright proposal of President Eisenhower that both countries exchange blueprints and aerial reconnaissance...
...governor generalship requires the formal confirmation of Queen Elizabeth, but Strongman Mirza is in no doubt about what his authority will give him. Said he: "The Governor General must have extensive and clearly defined powers, including the power to dismiss governments." Mirza's first job was to accept the resignation of Premier Mohammed Ali. The Premier did not want to quit, but the Moslem League, in an all-night session, removed him as its leader. Rebuffed by his party, Ali gave up the premiership...
...Royal Free Hospital on Gray's Inn Road set a notable precedent only four years after its opening in 1828: it became the first hospital in London to accept patients with infectious diseases, at a time when other hospitals still shunned them. But last week the Royal Free Hospital was closed on account of illness. The illness: an infectious disease, which had crippled its staff...
Balks & Crags. Zhukov's colleagues were less amiable. As the summit conference opened on the third afternoon, Bulganin was stubborn. He wanted a security plan (his own), but refused to accept the West's price-unification of Germany first...
...army's deputy chief of staff, was in the thick of it, but not on Soekarno's side. The officers who lead Indonesia's quarter-million-man army were in revolt against Defense Minister Iwa Kusumasumantri, an admitted Marxist. They refused to accept a chief of staff he approved. Backed by the army brass, Colonel Lubis stood firm against both Kusumasumantri and Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo's government, which President Soekarno has repeatedly shored up with his own personal prestige...