Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salve some British consciences: until just before the Anglo-French ultimatum in Egypt, only Eden and Queen Elizabeth were privy to the plot. On Oct. 16, at the famous Paris meeting of Eden and Mollet, "Operation Mousquetaire" was decided on, but not until the French had reluctantly agreed to accept Eden's "embarrassing judicial fiction that the intervention was aimed at separating the belligerents and protecting the Canal...
...worse. Opening the Bermuda debate in the House of Commons, Macmillan boldly seized on the left-wing Laborite cry for calling a halt to H-bomb tests, before Britain has a chance to try out the first one it has made. "Would the right honorable gentleman accept the logical consequences of abandoning the tests, which means abandoning the weapon?" asked Macmillan. Gaitskell retreated. Finally he replied: ''The Prime Minister is perfectly right. Our party decided to support the manufacture of the H-bomb here." Thereupon a noisy revolt broke out in the Labor Party...
...purest coincidence the Forrestal paid her call the same day Lebanon's Parliament voted 30 to i in support of the government's decision to accept Eisenhower-plan aid. (Just before the vote five deputies resigned their seats in protest.) The carrier's first presence in an Arab port was directly relevant to the tortured processes of side-choosing going on in two neighboring Arab lands...
...resignation was "a kind of protest against infringement on individual departments by the Administration." Although Singleton would give no reason for his resignation, it is understood from members of the Department that he was upset by a recent appointment which the Administration exerted pressure on the Department to accept...
When Singleton leaves in July, he will accept an appointment at Johns Hopkins University as a professor-at-large, a post which corresponds to that of a University Professor here. He taught at Johns Hopkins from 1937 to 1948, when, as chairman of the Romance Languages Department, he left to accept his present post at Harvard...