Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taken a critical blow in the middle of his Minnesota. He was not out but he was on the floor, and the count was almost up to ten. The seriousness of his position was wryly illustrated by Kefauver's manager, Florence Joseph ("Jiggs") Donohue. Asked if Kefauver might accept Stevenson as a candidate for Vice President (an unthinkable question on the Monday before Minnesota), Donohue cracked: "I think it might be given serious consideration, if he can demonstrate a greater capacity to get votes...
Greater Need. Despite this state of affairs, most District educators are bitterly opposed to Commissioner Lane's demotion plan. "It is the duty of the public schools to accept children without blaming them or punishing them for their lack of intelligence or limited cultural background," said a committee of 17 school officials in a statement issued by School Superintendent Hobart M. Corning...
...taking place in the U.S.S.R.. it is that nobody is infallible. Stalin certainly was not-and Khrushchev is not. Undoubtedly the Soviet reappraisal of Stalin will be far more comprehensive than any which 'outsiders' will produce . . . But this is not to say that American Marxists should accept automatically and uncritically the views of Soviet leaders-who are, after all. not without responsibility for Stalin's errors. It seems all too clear that there has been a good deal too much 'leaving it to the Russians' already...
...other Houses take intramural athletics more seriously, it is only because Lowell men accept sports as just another part of the Hose program. "Few men are willing to die for the House over at Soldiers Field, but most think kindly of it after graduation," Perkins says...
Most unions still believe that the time study is management's business, and they will take no part in it. Said one steelworkers' executive:"They can go ahead and make the study, but we don't have to accept the findings." The steelworkers prefer to let the company set job standards, then file grievances if they do not like them...