Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike the history of the aircraft carrier, the long-range bomber, the hydrogen bomb, the nuclear-powered submarine-all of which met service opposition before acceptance-the history of the missile has little record of military unwillingness to accept it as the weapon that must be developed at top speed. Another point is that the armed forces are not phasing in the missiles prematurely. "It is just as dangerous to have a weapon too early," said one SAC officer, "as it is to have it too late...
Next day Harding and the government reached a compromise. The government would accept the recent offer of NATO's Secretary-General Lord Ismay to undertake conciliation of the Cyprus dispute among Greece. Turkey and Britain. They also agreed to renew their offer to free Makarios (but not to return him to Cyprus), provided he publicly called on EOKA to cease all violence. But, at Harding's insistence, the government agreed to make no mention of negotiating with him, now or ever...
...Arab state which has been most faithfully in Nasser's corner, and has gone perhaps even further than Egypt to accept Russian help and direction, is Syria. For about a year 31-year-old Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, Nasser-admiring chief of Syria's military intelligence service, has been next thing to king of the beasts in the Syrian political jungle. Last week, angered by his increasing inroads on their hunting preserves, and perhaps even a little disturbed by Russian influence, some of the older inhabitants of the jungle tried to run Serraj...
...officers of Harvard should quickly accept the recommendation of one of the University's student committees and do everything in their power to make sure that the study of religion receives a more prominent and proper place than it has at the present time...
What many veterans do not know is that they are already paying at least the equivalent of 5% interest. Most moneylenders who accept VA loans do so only at considerable discount in order to offset the 4½% rate. Builders pass on this hidden charge to veterans by inflating the cost of the house. And by preventing the veteran from building earlier, the VA's low rate has actually cost him extra money. Industry sources, for example, expect house prices to average about 3% higher this spring than last...