Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...particularly happy to be here tonight." The crowd sat silent, waiting. Kennedy continued: "It will be possible for us to disagree as Democrats within our party organization." The silence grew heavier. Kennedy plunged ahead, reading the text of Republican Verger's tricky challenge. Said he: "I accept the challenge. You who have been gracious enough to invite me hererealize that we do not see eye to eye on all national issues. I have no hesitancy in telling the Republican chairman the same thing I said in my own city of Boston, that I accept the Supreme Court decision...
...Accept the Challenge." Landing in Jackson, Kennedy read the local papers−and in them, a challenge from Mississippi Republican State Chairman Wirt Yerger Jr. for him to state his views on integration and segregation. While he kept an overflow reception crowd waiting in the Roof Room of the Heidelberg Hotel, Jack Kennedy hid out in his room, lolling in a warm bath while he thought through a revised version of his speech...
...chair, exploded: "That, gentlemen, is economic humbug." The industrialists suggested interpretations of the law be left to the courts. Snapped Erhard: "Courts are not fitted to judge whether a cartel is harmful to the economy or not. That is my job." Only Adenauer's intercession forced Erhard to accept a compromise bill permitting exceptions for "crisis" cartels and retail-price-fixing rings. "Damned little butter for such a big slice of dry bread," snorted Erhard as the Bundestag passed the bill. Yet even this watered-down law makes Germany the first European country to take a stand in principle...
...People," said he, "must come to accept private enterprise, not as a necessary evil, but as an affirmative good. Governments must cease just tolerating private business; they must welcome its contribution and go out of their way to attract it and even to woo it. And there must be a fundamental reversal of the traditionally hostile attitude, by governments and peoples alike, toward the profit motive...
...found in the tariff regulations or the laws governing the convertibility of currency. It exists instead in the minds and emotions of those who need foreign investment most. But because they often tend to equate it with 19th century-style colonialism, they are reluctant to accept...