Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something about those loans which the existing system cannot handle, Senator A.S. (Mike) Monroney of Oklahoma has proposed the establishment of what he calls the "international piggy bank," an International Development Association to be affiliated with the IBRD and to take only those loans that the IBRD cannot accept...
...Carl Carlsson von Horn (the U.N.'s new Palestine truce chief) arranged a cease-fire and an impartial U.N. land survey. Fearing that Egypt's Nasser might feel moved to a bombastic defense of his new Syrian subdivision, the U.S. State Department put pressure on Israel to accept. Last week, after U.N. surveyors found that the Israelis were indeed digging into the demilitarized zone, the Israeli diggers duly shifted a few yards to the west and sank their bulldozer blades into indubitably Israeli dirt. The first border row between Israel and Nasser's United Arab Republic...
...problem of the Christian majority, particularly in America," says Niebuhr, "is to come to terms with the stubborn will to live of the Jews as a peculiar people, both religiously and ethnically. The problem can be solved only if the Christian and Gentile majority accepts this fact and ceases to practice tolerance provisionally in the hope that it will encourage assimilation ethnically and conversion religiously." Disappointment of such hopes has produced violent reactions in the past, Niebuhr points out, as when Martin Luther "thought that the Jews had refused to become Catholic but would undoubtedly accept the purer Protestant version...
...more easily in terms of his own religious heritage than by subjecting himself to the hazards of guilt feeling involved in a conversion to a faith, which, whatever its excellencies, must appear to him as a symbol of an oppressive majority culture. Both Jews and Christians will have to accept the hazards of their historic symbols. These symbols may be the bearers of an unconditioned message to the faithful. But to those outside the faith they are defaced by historic taints. Practically nothing can purify the symbol of Christ as the image of God in the imagination...
...down. Its top hen became its bottom hen. In two out of three groups, the bottom hen rose to the top. In all groups, the upper middle-class hen-No. 2-clung most tenaciously to its position. The No. 25 needed twice as many shocks as the others to accept a new place in society...