Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been thrown into the summit hopper, there was one clear and urgent need-the U.S. need for IRBM bases in Europe to counter Russia's missile potential, its threat to the U.S. and to U.S. retaliatory power. But many of the NATO allies were far from eager to accept the U.S. offer of missiles for bases. Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, in a quick swing through Europe's capitals, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in a series of preconference meetings in Paris, had quickly learned that...
...anything, Europe's safety still depends on the U.S., and will for a long time to come. Without the U.S.'s retaliatory power, Europe would not long be safe on a continent alone with Russia, and Europe knew it. Britain had already made clear its willingness to accept enough IRBMs to stock four bases (three to be manned by the British and one by U.S. troops). In time, similar agreements could probably be worked out with enough other NATO members to offset the Soviet ICBM threat...
...Soviet Communist party boss said countries which accept American atomic bases face shattering retaliatory attacks in the event of a war launched against Russia as a result of a misunderstood order or at the discretion of some American officer...
...papers had gone counter to Gannett's publicly expressed views, F.E.G., as he was called, sighed to Vice President (now President) Paul Miller: "You know, Paul, sometimes I don't know about this autonomy." Tolerant Teetotaler Gannett's only inviolate command: his papers must never accept liquor...
...just too much oil in Kenai to let it lie there. The Fish and Wildlife Service will demand guarantees that the oilmen protect the moose by routing their roads around rather than through the moose land, by keeping oil from wells from polluting the marshes. Oilmen are expected to accept these conditions, and the stiffer leasing rules. For one reason, they are anxious to get along with the Fish and Wildlife Service in case huge reserves of crude are discovered under other gamelands...