Word: acceptant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People on the [faculty] committee had theirown definition of ethnic studies and werereluctant to accept our definition," Hsu says...
...H.N.I.C." is a term that has been used by blacks for many years, but what Boston magazine ignored is that it is not a flattering one. "H.N.I.C." was a term used by blacks, somewhat facetiously, to describe leaders who had gained acceptance by white America. The most famous example is Booker T. Washington, who was loved by whites for his acceptance of segregation but was warily received in the black community. Washington was certainly not a spokesperson for the majority of black Americans who did not accept segregation, but because he had the money and the backing of white America...
...average price of a ticket back. And who should rock up as the last passenger for the LAX-to-SFO flight but WILLIAM HURT. Yes, William Hurt, the star who looks most like Dilbert! At first he had to be coaxed into going over to the Dilbert cubicle to accept his prize. But as soon as he realized he was being given a check for $120, Hurt--without the aid of image consultants--asked that it be signed over to a charity...
...infuriated his advisers. His chief of staff Alan Brooke complained that every day Churchill had 10 ideas, only one of which was good--and he did not know which one. Yet Churchill the romantic showed acute realism in his reaction to Russia's predicament. He reviled communism. Required to accept a communist ally in a struggle against a Nazi enemy, he did so not only willingly but generously. He sent a large proportion of Britain's war production to Russia by Arctic convoys, even at a time when the convoys from America to Britain, which alone spared the country starvation...
Politically, he was also erratic. As Poland was struggling to be accepted into NATO, he suddenly proposed a "NATO bis," a shadowy "second NATO" for those in waiting. Not for the first time, his colleagues put their heads in their hands. His closest adviser was his former chauffeur, with whom he played long games of table tennis. He developed close links with the military and security services. His critics accused him of being authoritarian, a "President with an ax." In another historical irony, he was defeated by a former communist, Aleksander Kwasniewski. Walesa went back to Gdansk, to his villa...