Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...completely," one reporter said, "so we sometimes miss our deadlines by having to wait for his speeches." The President's press secretary, Jim Hagerty, on the other hand, has always been able to meet the reporters' times, even resorting to threats of quitting if the President did not accept what he had written...
...chieftain of Bechuanaland's Bemangwato tribesmen, came to an end. Seretse had brought the drought on himself by marrying a blonde London typist named Ruth Williams in 1948, to the outrage of all British colonials in Bechuanaland and to large numbers of his own subjects, who, rather than accept a white chieftainess, transferred their allegiance from Seretse to his Uncle Tshekedi. To still the clamor, Britain's Laborite Colonial Office simply plucked the young king from his throne and sentenced him (on an allowance of $4,200 a year) to exile in Britain for life. But the clamor...
When the Russian invited him out for a drink, Staples asked a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer for advice and was told to accept and keep the Mountie informed. Then, under the illusion that he had been deputized as a counterspy, Staples began chumming around with Popov and other Russians; the conversation eventually drifted around to Staples' work and R.C.A.F. aircraft. His police friend warned him to stop, but Staples continued meeting the Russians. Finally, when Popov gave him $50 (Staples said he gave it back) and spoke about providing him with a camera, government security officers cracked down...
...report suggested that a variety of living arrangements might be suitable to accomodate "individual tastes and needs," and said that "much as we admire the Houses and respect what they are doing, we cannot accept the notion that the House Plan provides the only desirable sort of living arrangements for our undergraduates." It noted that "economy and some admirable educational results" were achieved under other systems...
...behind the words "Faculty Committee on Athletics" and "control of eligibility" lay a certain, resolute position--that Harvard University cannot accept the principle of segregation and will not be a party to its practice on the athletic field any more than in ordinary educational procedures...