Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generally laughed at, with many people telling us we could never win because we were weak, too small, and other less complimentary reasons. Having done what some claim to be the impossible, it is a little discouraging to find TIME publishing an article that is a little hard to accept by the people to whom your top executives trust their lives as they commute in Northeast's "aging and early model airplanes...
...eleven days, leaders of the Democratic Party increased the pressure on New York's Mayor Robert F. Wagner. Adlai Stevenson, Averell Harriman, Herbert Lehman-singly and collectively-begged Wagner to accept the nomination for the U.S. Senate seat that will be left vacant by Lehman's retirement. Stevenson needed him: on Bob Wagner's coattails, there was a chance that Adlai might win New York's 45 electoral votes. Last week Wagner finally announced his "considered" decision...
...force to implement the Supreme Court's desegregation decisions. But the Democrats merely "recognize the Supreme Court . . . as one of the three constitutional . . . branches of the Federal Government," and note that its decisions "have brought consequences of vast importance to our Nation as a whole." The Republicans "accept" the decisions, and say that public-school discrimination must be "progressively eliminated . . . with all deliberate speed...
...young nation has grown secure in its independence and the French grown to accept its permanence, French businessmen have been wooed instead of. warred on, and the last of the departing French troops, to their surprise, found themselves affectionately cheered. The French government still spends money on Vietnamese agriculture and the maintenance of 300 teachers in free French schools. The Cercle Sportif, once snootily for Europeans only, took in Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu, the attractive First Lady of Viet Nam (she is the bachelor President's sister...
...Suez Canal," and 2) a large merchant fleet flies the Panamanian flag.* On a visit to Cairo last week, Panama's Ambassador to Italy, doubling as Minister to Egypt, declared that Gamal Abdel Nasser had the right to nationalize the Suez Canal Company, and that Panama would never accept international control of its canal-comments that afforded Nasser & Co. some small aid and comfort...