Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States would make such a proposal, it would shake the world. it might well cut right through the ice which is now clogging the canal issue, and effect a settlement which should benefit all concerned. It would give Nasser an easy way to accept a form of international control. It would answer legitimate Western fears about Egypt's intentions. And it would take the next move away from the Soviet Union, which now seems to be the biggest and most important question-mark in Suez, and indeed, the whole Middle East...
...Rayburn, 74, became a formal church member for the first time when he joined Lone Star Primitive Baptist Church.* The conversion took place in a white frame church, after a Sunday sermon, when Elder Henry Greer Ball, a grocer on weekdays, asked if anyone present would like to accept Jesus Christ. Up stepped Sam, taking off tie, jacket and shoes. Then, wearing socks, trousers and white shirt, the Speaker of the House was completely immersed for a moment in a portable baptistry before he emerged dripping to hear himself baptized "in the name of the Father...
...troubled school week came to a close, 15 of the Clay school's 18 teachers returned to work, and the Webster County board of education attempted to give legal sanction to its stand by formally voting not to accept Negro children from the Providence Rosenwald School. The next move was up to Governor A. B. ("Happy") Chandler. If he orders the guard removed, Mrs. Gordon, whose case is buttressed by neither a county board order nor a court order, will probably have to send her children to the Rosenwald School for another year while Clay belatedly works...
This, says Bultmann, is the language of mythology, meaningful in New Testament times and derived mainly from Greek Gnosticism and Jewish apocalypticism. To expect moderns to accept it as true is both senseless and impossible-senseless "because there is nothing specifically Christian in the mythical view of the world as such . . . the cosmology of a pre-scientific age"; and impossible, because "no man can adopt a view of the world by his own volition-it is already determined for him by his place in history." No one believes any more in a local heaven or a local hell...
...attended to-like say 300 Apaches waiting for them to come down off that butte. There is the further difficulty of four murders charged to Widmark's account, but a kindly old general s willing to forget about such minor matters if the hero is willing to accept the heroine's custody for as long as they both shall live-a decision the synopsis calls 'worthy of Solomon...