Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four original members of the Eisenhower Cabinet have prevailed on Ike to accept their resignations some time during the spring or summer. Each of the four had wanted to quit at the end of the first Eisenhower Administration, had agreed to stay on to help get the second term on the road-and until a suitable replacement was found. The departing...
...pressure was on Israel to withdraw, but also on Egypt to negotiate. Should the Egyptians refuse to accept a UNEF garrison on the shores of the Tiran Straits, the UNEF might well wind up adding a navy-a destroyer patrolling the narrows to insure for Israeli ships what Hammarskjold has affirmed as the "right of innocent passage...
Seeking Stendhalian clarity on this point, Mollet last week addressed a letter to 34 party leaders (not including Communists or Poujadists). Wrote Mollet: "The chiefs of the Algerian rebellion . . . will refuse to accept our offer of a cease-fire so long as they can hope that France may change its Algerian policy ... It is important . . . that there be no misunderstanding about the continuity of the policy during the present legislature . . ." On the eve of the critical U.N. debate on Algeria, Mollet asked for and got a blank check...
...this distinction is a common one, but it implies an attitude towards books which is far from common. For if we accept this contention about art, it makes absolutely no difference what we read. The only thing of importance is what happens to use when we read...
...only when he expects to hear a voice, and that following the critics will produce only the voice which he has been told he will hear. If he reads a book about which he has heard enough, he can only react in those particular terms. He may reject or accept, but he is within the predetermined framework, which makes the possibility of an important experience slight...