Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Stalin said that one or another should be arrested, it was necessary to accept on faith that he was an 'enemy of the people.' Meanwhile, Beria's gang, which ran the organs of state security, outdid itself in proving the guilt of the arrested and the truth of materials which it falsified. And what proofs were offered? The confessions of the arrested, and the investigative judges accepted these 'confessions.' And how is it possible that a person confesses to crimes which he has not committed? Only in one way-because of the application...
...diagnosed as sick by their very stealing, bed-wetting and bad temper. But what can we say about the parents of these children, some of whom also consent to receive 'treatment' for themselves? In what sense can they be said to be mentally sick? Must we accept as proof of their illness mere failure to cope with such unmanageable offspring...
Kennan also recommends that the U.S.: Accept "whether we like it or not" that the best hope for the Soviet satellites is for gradual and peaceful evolution to greater independence. "There is a finality, for better or for worse, about what has now occurred in Eastern Europe...
...while protesting the Asian attitude, the Guardian seemed to accept the dynamic of retreat. Labor Party thinking is tending to the opinion that it is useless to insist on cast-iron guarantees from local populations against future contingencies when, in an emergency, the British will act as the emergency requires anyway. In the meantime, it is far better not to widen enmities, but to seek consent and the cooperation of local populations by giving them as much as can be given of what they...
...television section of Germany's Bayerische Rundfunk (Bavarian Radio) prepared to accept commercial advertising-but with a Teutonic difference. All commercial messages will be concentrated into one 25-minute period, and the remainder of each telecast day will then be sponsor-free...