Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consult. He could give prestige to "nationalizing" the satellites, and provide a semblance of genuineness. He could help spot the right kind of leaders for the operation. If all went well, letting off a little anti-Russian steam might even encourage the satellite peoples to accept with cheers a Communism recostumed in nationalistic garb...
...score of men who rule Russia, and their outriders and satraps, now had a perilous decision to make. Should they continue to appease the satellites, move cautiously ahead with more concessions and hope to achieve the "national Communism" they were prepared to accept? Or should they renounce the liberalization policy (and throw out its discredited advocate, Khrushchev), return to the iron ways of Stalin, crush opposition ruthlessly, and wait for a new generation to grow...
...life-and-death gamble with their nation's future. They had for the first time made a hero out of a Communist: taut, bald Wladyslaw Gomulka. He promised only to take . them on the "Polish road to Socialism." Now everything turned on whether or not the U.S.S.R. would accept the new order peaceably...
...prewar Polish Communists of any stature available when Poland fell under the domination of the Red army at the end of World War II. This lonely eminence he owed to the fact that he had been in a Polish prison in 1938 and hence unable to accept a pressing invitation to Moscow from Joseph Stalin. None of Gomulka's colleagues who made the trip returned alive...
...part of the hypothetical agreement, the United Nations must urge both parties to accept it as the the protector and administrator of Suez. This solution would require some hard swallowing from Nasser, but it is the only one which would possibly be acceptable to Great Britain, France, and Israel. Nasser would undoubtedly be upset, but, considering the continued flow of oil from Lebanon and Syria and the general Arabian fear of Nasser's domination, it unlikely that the rest of the Middle East would really mind...