Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year was 1953, Dwight Eisenhower's first-and un-happiest-in office. At the heart of Ike's troubles were the many Republican Congressmen who, unable to accept responsibility after their long political exile, spent most of their time trying to thwart the Republican Administration. At a Cabinet meeting on May 22, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson said he wished more Republican legislators would realize that they were no longer members of the opposition. Replied the President: "Brother, I heartily agree." When Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, at that meeting, cautioned that the national debt might go above the legal...
Waiting Game. Another Nasser caller last week was World Bank President Eugene Black, who flew in to Cairo. Reportedly, Nasser told Black that he still preferred to accept the West's offer, and asked him to urge speed on the State Department, which has been holding things up since March-while it mulls details and makes up its mind about Nasser's intentions in the Middle East. In August, Nasser will go to Moscow on a state visit. If by then the U.S. and Britain have not settled with him, they may find that Nasser has picked...
...posed for a TV film, and essayed some rolling perorations in the inimitable manner of the master, John L. Lewis. McDonald cried that in the current negotiations the steel industry had made an "about-face" on 20 years of collective bargaining, and given his union an "ultimatum" to accept a "substandard contract." After four weeks of negotiating between McDonald and U.S. Steel's John Stephens, the industry's chief spokesman, the differences boiled down to i) a union demand for a 28.3? an hour "package" deal v. a management offer of 14-15?, 2) management's demand...
...such as the pioneer College Retirement Equities Fund (started four years ago for college personnel only), the Boeing Airplane variable plan, and half a dozen others. All are restricted nonprofit groups. If the commercial insurance companies want to try variable annuities, it seems likely that they will have to accept regulation by the SEC. Then they will be able to offer both types of annuities to their customers...
Life Is Death. Wilson's invisible man, the Outsider, may be described as a blend of existentialist hero, religious man without God, and prophet or saint-in-embryo. His dilemma might be described as that of a man living under the conviction of sin who cannot accept traditional Christianity. In the lines of Eliot's Ash Wednesday...