Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Election year in West Germany is producing some strange surprises. Last week, after seven years of stubborn resistance to the Western alliance and all its works and most of its ways, West Germany's opposition Socialists declared themselves ready to accept NATO...
...bouncing Edward, Prince of Wales, gave a royal welcome to the Grand Duchess. Many of those firmest in proclaiming her authenticity were distant relatives and friends of her supposed family-but one branch, the German House of Hesse, to which the Empress of Russia had belonged, declined to accept the newcomer. The Czar, it was said, had deposited some 20 million rubles in England before the revolution, and the House of Hesse wanted to assure itself a prior right to the money...
...felt that our particular type of crusade could at best only make a dent in New York City," writes Billy. "Time after time, as we stood in the midst of this throbbing metropolis, we felt our inadequacy to accept this challenge . . . Protestantism in New York is in an extreme minority.* Ministers have been discouraged and frustrated ... In talking with many of them we found almost a sense of desperation. Ministers who could not agree with us theologically . . . are willing to cooperate simply because there seems to be nothing else in sight for them to reach the conscience of this city...
...Another great Russian capitalist collector was Ivan Abramovich Morosov, who competed fiercely with Shchukin for the paintings of Matisse and Picasso, fell behind because he could not accept cubism...
...They carry rope ladders round their waists and files sewn in the seams of their coats to escape with. D'you mind very much if I accept...