Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richard H. Broderick was one of six Portland Democrats running for a seat in the Maine house of representatives. Lawyer Broderick, well aware that his party had not elected a representative to the legislature from Portland since Depression 1934, made no speeches, decided shortly after the campaign began to accept a good job in Los Angeles, packed up and headed West. Last week Broderick got a long-distance telephone call. The gist: come home...
...exhortations. They assured Adenauer that his goal of 96,000 men in uniform by the end of the year would be met. There were 55,570 men already under arms, and recruits were pouring in at the rate of 4,500 a week. As fast as the Germans could accept them, U.S. tanks, self-propelled guns, 90-mm. antiaircraft guns, heavy machine guns and electronic equipment were rolling into German camps, part of a total $1 billion worth which the U.S. is giving the Germans to equip six of their scheduled twelve divisions...
...sudden friendship, but sheer desperation that led President Mirza to accept Suhrawardy as Prime Minister of the nation accounted to be the staunchest U.S. ally in Asia. Pakistan was in trouble and heading for worse. East Pakistan, with 55% of the country's population, was convulsed by famine compounded by official corruption. Pakistan's much-heralded Five-year plan was already three months old, but because of political bickering, not one of the projects envisioned in it was under way. The once dominant Moslem League Party was fragmented into half a dozen parties and factions, eliminating...
...dramatic switch took place in London. The British government began talking about taking the Suez dispute to the U.N. In Washington Secretary Dulles, though cool to a plan that could be so easily snarled by a Russian veto or by an endless debate, indicated that he might accept it as a device for keeping "moral pressure" on the Egyptian dictator. But the search for some formula that might break the deadlock went feverishly on in Washington, where, without bothering about the sacred protocol of presenting credentials, France's newly arrived Ambassador Herve Alphand rushed from the airport to State...
...Actually, Eugene Ormandy's Philadelphia Orchestra-which has been billed as "the greatest" -had been invited first, but could not make up its mind to accept...