Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent origin." It was because he knew Goldfine so well that Adams was willing to vouch for him as "an upright and honest citizen, trustworthy and reliable." Whether Goldfine actually fits that description, whether he is the sort of businessman from whom public officials can accept gifts without having to return favors, remains the central issue in the Adams-Goldfine case despite distracting Goldfine pressagentry. Last week TIME reporters, conducting dozens of interviews and digging through musty court records throughout New England, reported on some of Goldfine's many visible business operations...
...Dump keepers in the area, somehow warned, refused to accept the garbage when Strang bought a trailer to haul it away himself...
...Wellesley-educated (class of '17) Mme. Chiang Kaishek, First Lady of Free China. Her plea-lackadaisically met-was for more U.S. help for China to stave off disaster. One day last week Mme. Chiang, back in the U.S. from Formosa for medical checkups, went to Ann Arbor to accept an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of Michigan, there delivered another timely warning that had fateful undertones. Its net: because of too much intellectual handwringing over the horrors of modern war, "freedom and the values of human dignity, which we were taught to cherish above all else, have...
...proclaimed a victory. Others saw Soustelle's appointment as a neatly timed maneuver to deprive the committee of its most dramatic grievance and hence one of its chief reasons for existence. "When the olive branch was extended to us," said one colon sadly, "we could do nothing but accept...
...unchanging gabled houses still found in country districts, and the traditional peasant women's dress. Art lovers see even more in Haniwa. Wrote one Japanese critic: "Haniwa's geometrizing of natural forms is exactly in tune with the dicta of cubism. Artists are now ready to accept Haniwa as 'pure art' and as delightful, intuitive jugglings of basic sculptural forms...