Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Hollister himself last week: "I certainly would not accept direction of any program with the idea of cutting its throat," but he added that he knew too little about foreign aid to have an opinion...
Division Down. During the period when the pundits could see nothing in their tea leaves except intercontinental bombers, the Army plugged hard for its giant 280-mm. atomic cannon, with its 20-mile range. Now, as the Joint Chiefs accept the possibility of a stalemate in strategic airpower and the need for powerful battle forces (TIME, Jan. 10), the Army also has in sight atomic shells for its conventional big artillery pieces, 20 howitzers, rocket launchers and atomic heads for its guided missiles...
...adversity," said Mrs. Lavina Christensen Fugal. "Our troubles are what make us strong." For Lavina, trouble and adversity have been lifelong companions. As a young girl she wanted more than anything to go to college. But when she won a scholarship to the University of Utah, she could not accept it. Her parents, Danish immigrants, did not have the money to buy her clothes...
Because other ex-Czarist officers had been going over to the Whites, often with their troops, the Bolsheviks in 1918 appointed commissars to every Red army unit: stone-hard Communists whose job it was to make men and officers accept "the spirit of revolutionary discipline," or else. Said Realist Trotsky: "An army cannot be built without reprisals. Masses of men cannot be led to death unless the army command has the death penalty in its arsenal." Thus began the pernicious commissar system which years later was to bring the army, and Soviet Russia itself, almost to destruction...
...that Rhinelander has laid the difficult administrative groundwork, it is perhaps only natural that University officials should be on the lookout for widely recognized scholars to accept temporary chairmanships of Committee on General Education. Although not previously considered by the faculty, the new plan will certainly have its advantages-closer affiliation and cooperation between the Committee and the faculty as a whole, as well as a constant influx of new ideas...