Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teller had to make an agonizing decision: either accept the G.A.C. verdict against his own passionate conviction that it endangered the nation, or fight the decision, with little chance of winning, and at the cost of ostracism by many of his fellow scientists. He chose to fight, joined forces with Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss in the struggle that pitted them against popular Robert Oppenheimer and split the ranks of U.S. scientists for years afterward...
...slim 161 votes in a try for his 13th consecutive term. The winner: Democrat Samuel J. Tedesco, 42, who accused McLevy of undue conservatism and of standing pat while the city deteriorated.* But even Tedesco had regrets, saying: "I'm sorry it had to be Jasper. I accept the election with mixed feelings. I think the voters saw some of Jasper's qualities in me." Said Jasper McLevy good-naturedly: "I suppose I could go back to roofing houses...
Instead of English 10, which will pass out of existence this spring, the Department will accept a lower level Humanities course as "the proper avenue to concentration in English," Bate said...
...TARIFF FIGHT will erupt over President's power to accept or reject recommendations by Tariff Commission. At issue is recent vote by commission calling for import quotas on clothespins. President Eisenhower has twice before turned down such recommendations, but if he refuses a third time, protectionists in Congress threaten to gang up, strip him of "peril-point" veto in tariff cases...
...first fiscal quarter, leaving only $9.8 billion for the second three months. Since program stretchouts are slow to take hold, this would have meant either 1) enormous cuts to bring the budget back into line by the end of the second quarter-something military planners refused to accept, or 2) forcing the aircraft industry to borrow huge sums to pay the Government's bills...