Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Water over the Dam. Mikoyan seemed perfectly ready to accept the continued existence of a divided Germany, and at a big official dinner he even made a proposal about it. "How dangerous for Germany to follow its present path," he said. "Atomic armament can only mean eventual unhappiness-and perhaps destruction-for the German people." But if only West Germany would agree to "remain free of nuclear weapons." either on its own decision or by NATO agreement, the Soviet Union in event of war "would be prepared to abstain from using nuclear weapons against any object whatsoever in the Federal...
...Bronx brick pile is the embodiment of a theory, much argued by educators, that, like the slow-witted and the physically handicapped, bright students should be cut from the herd and schooled separately. It is one of four public high schools in New York City* permitted to accept or reject potential students on the basis of academic ability...
Mediation by the State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration has been in progress since the second week of the strike. Hod-carriers and construction laborers' unions agreed yesterday to accept a 30 cents an hour wage increase over a three year period, half of their original demands...
Members of the United Ministry to Students in Cambridge expressed general approval of the Corporation's decision to allow marriages of students of all faiths in Memorial Church. "All members were pleased to accept the decision," Rev. E. Spencer Parsons of Old Cambridge Baptist Church and chairman of the organization, said at a meeting yesterday...
...accept the decision of the person wanting to leave, but if I think his position unwise I tell him so. If a man says he wants to withdraw to mature I tell him that's nonsense. He must have a more positive purpose. I often get students who want to be told why they shouldn't leave...