Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the course of a campaign decided on the basis of personalities, many issues of American domestic conduct have been examined. As a result of this investigation, Adlai Stevenson has enumerated several policies which his victorious opponent would do well to consider and accept...
From Moscow a chastened Khrushchev telephoned to make his peace. Like wildfire word spread through the country that Khrushchev had apologized for his intemperate outbursts during his flying visit to Warsaw the week before. Most important of all, he was now prepared to accept Gomulka's "national Communism...
...fight them," wrote Mohammed in the holy Koran. "What liars they are." Mohammed meant Christians and Jews, whom he had expected to accept his new vision. When they did not respond, he took to the sword. Before the onslaught Eastern Christianity declined in numbers, vigor and territory. Within 80 years of Islam's birth, the mosque had replaced the church from Antioch to Carthage...
...misunderstandings Cragg traces to the initial fact that Mohammed had no thorough acquaintance with the Bible. He was ignorant of the meaning of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity and the sonship of Christ. To him Christ seemed a rival of the One God, and that Mohammed could not accept. Accordingly he reduced Christ to the status of one prophet among many and gave him a few brief pages in the Koran. Even today Moslems refuse to consider Christianity a monotheistic faith because of this early misreading of Christ. Nor could Mohammed, for whom it was unthinkable that God would...
...that the U.S. economy is on basically stable ground, or that the ballooning U.S. population will eventually absorb all the goods-and more-that industry can produce. Yet there is a very real concern that U.S. business, its eyes firmly fixed on the long term, will not see or accept the short-run dangers of an inflationary spiral that could seriously cripple the economy...