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Word: acceptance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is no doubt that the Kremlin will accept the general idea of a conference. But the plan put forward by Pravda this past weekend bears little resemblance to the meeting the State Department had envisioned. Where the Western powers had proposed short sessions, lasting at the most three or four days, in which the four heads of government would merely uncover the areas of dispute from which further negotiations at lower level would proceed, the Russians are asking for a conference of unlimited length, to reach final decisions on the world's problems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At the Summit . . . | 5/24/1955 | See Source »

...over to the Soviet Union a vast collection of former German enterprises in Austria, including the Danube Shipping Co. and a 30-year title to some 60% of Austrian oil properties. In its anxiety to get an Austrian treaty signed, the West was willing, as late as 1954, to accept Article 35. Actually, the article was superseded last month when Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab flew to Moscow and agreed to buy back the German assets with a ransom of $2,000,000 cash, 10 million tons of oil and $150 million worth of manufactured goods in ten years. Russian Ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Treaty of Independence | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...good Peronista? Last week a Peronista member of the federal Chamber of Deputies, Roberto Adolfo Carena, announced that, as a lifelong Catholic of "sincere conviction." he was resigning from the Chamber in protest against the government's anti-church measures. The Peronista majority, flustered and angry, refused to accept Carena's resignation, instead voted to expel him for "lack of faith, loyalty and solidarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Question of Conscience | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...business and trade papers), and Agricultural Publishers Association (35 members, including Farm Journal, Progressive Farmer, Capper's Farmer). If the Government wins its case in court, the trade associations will be forced to let each publisher decide how much commission an agency will get and to accept ads from any agency, whether it is "accredited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Promise Kept | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

Most Protestants, uncommitted to Mary's perpetual virginity, see no reason not to accept Jesus' brothers as real brothers. They point to the Douay version's "And he [Joseph] knew her not till she brought forth her first-born son" (Matthew 1:25), and "And she brought forth her first-born son" (Luke 2:7). To that Catholics reply that Scriptural use of the word "firstborn" connotes a woman's first child but does not neces-j sarily indicate later children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jesus & His Brethren | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

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