Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nasser a Communist? Certainly not. But nevertheless we support Nasser. We have only one objective, that the peoples be freed from colonial dependence." Last week Pravda offered the pro-Western Arab states of Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iraq "ready Soviet Union cooperation in economic development," if they too would accept "the same [i.e., neutralist] principles" as Syria and Egypt...
Between these two major points there was no quid pro quo; the U.S. was not forced to accept negotiation in order to get European acceptance of missiles, nor were the other NATO powers forced to accept missiles to establish the offer of negotiations. Many NATO countries had long been importuning the U.S. to provide them with modern weapons. But U.S. negotiators came to realize, more sharply than before, that the leaders of most NATO nations needed, for political reasons, to couple acceptance of missiles with a reiterated promise that the West is always ready to listen to practical offers...
...Christian Hansen, another Socialist, echoed the Norwegian line. Then West Germany's tough-minded Chancellor Konrad Adenauer spoke up. Despite the fact that the Bulganin notes talked vaguely of a neutralized Germany -a prospect that is anathema to Adenauer-the West German Chancellor was no longer prepared to accept the U.S. lead in the matter of East-West negotiations. Said he: "I would see no objection to attempting to inquire through diplomatic channels from the Soviet government what precise conceptions form the basis of these proposals...
...little engines, instead of wandering happily in the fields. In Play With Me, a lonely little girl starts out by chasing animals to make them her friends; she is rejected, and then learns that if she sits absolutely still, the animals-and, presumably, mama and papa and teacher-will accept her. To some critics, the most shocking thing in stories of this sort is the notion of a conditional love that is granted only when the child behaves...
Parameter. In Santa Rosa, Calif., City Manager Sam B. Hood relaxed a city charter provision forbidding city employees to give Christmas presents to their superiors, instructed department heads that they could accept a gift "if you can eat it, drink it or smoke...