Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jones, professor of Air Science, left yesterday for the Air University in Alabama to consult ROTC officials about changes in the standard Air Science curriculum here. One topic for discussion is adoption of a modified "Harvard Plan," now used by the Army ROTC unit. Air Force refusal to accept such a plan is believed to have been one reason for Administration hesitation in accepting the unit...
...significant step forward. For the first time the Russians had not insisted that an absolute ban on nuclear weapons precede any other kind of disarmament. For the first time too the U.S.S.R. had given some indications, hazy though they were, of the kind of international controls it would accept. Perhaps most important of all, however, was the new tone adopted by the Soviets. Said a U.S. official: "Our preliminary reaction is that this is not propaganda but a solid proposal aimed at solving the problem before...
...misgivings were felt, few were expressed. Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd and his opposition member on the Labor bench, Nye Bevan, joined in mutual self-congratulation. The fact was that in deciding to accept Malta, everyone was all too conscious of unhappy events in another Mediterranean colony, Cyprus. Malta's 320,000 inhabitants are completely dependent on Britain for their economy, i.e., the Royal Navy, their foreign policy and defense. And, in contrast to Cyprus, thousands of Maltese demonstrated recently by waving Union Jacks and crying, "Long live England...
...took quick advantage of all the free publicity. It boosted its press run and claimed it was selling 5,000 extra copies daily. In Detroit, Chicago and other cities, business also picked up. When six T-men showed up at the Detroit Worker office, Editor William Allan refused to accept the seizure order, argued that his paper was owned by a separate Michigan corporation. After an hour's discussion, the T-men left. Though Chicago Editor Carl Hirsch was shut off from his typewriter and copy paper, he moved over to another small Communist office, went back to cranking...
...Lucy, who has been rather foggy about her identity, apparently thinks that she is Ibsen's Nora: "Up to now you've treated me ... as though I'm still twenty, to be cuddled, protected, patronized. Finally, in any important matter, disregarded . . . So-now-I no longer accept...