Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long and tortuous road." Disarmament always is, he added. "I have personally been studying it for 40 years." He termed last month's Bering Strait incident, the Soviet jet attack on a U.S. patrol bomber, as probably a "misunderstanding" (at week's end the U.S. decided to accept the Soviet apologies and their offer to pay 50% of the damage...
Faced with the startling notion of accepting a distant relative as an intimate member of the family proper, Britain has tried to allay Malta's demands with a vague plan for government through the Home Office instead of the Colonial Office, but Mintoff will not be fobbed off. "We are prepared to accept all the facts that you accept here in Britain-taxation and all the rest," he told officials last week, "but we can no longer be just a naval base. We are a mature people who want our full constitutional rights, and you cannot treat...
...wryly informed the Soviet Union that it is ready to accept a permanent Soviet clergyman in return for permission to send a new U.S. Roman Catholic priest to Moscow to replace ousted Father Georges Bissonnette...
...reporters who wanted to hear more, Dr. Brobeck added: "Most scientists don't accept miracles because they are not Christians. But the thoughtful scientist would not say that miracles are impossible, only improbable. Most scientists are not Christians, but not because they're scientists. Most businessmen or most reporters are not Christians either; in fact, most people are not Christians...
...Birth. "One of the essences of science is reproducibility. If I can't observe the miracles of 2,000 years ago and reproduce them, as a scientist, I can't believe them possible. But as a Christian, a miracle has happened to me which makes me accept these miracles. This miracle is the new birth, which every one of us who is a Christian has experienced. It is the application of God's power which brings about this change which is a miracle. It cannot be accomplished by any biological or psychological force. It creates within...