Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three leaders were not yet to have their way in Jordan. The 20-year-old King Hussein had become, overnight, a national hero by expelling Glubb. But when the three potentates in Cairo invited Hussein to accept their financial aid in place of the $25 million annual subsidy Britain has been paying Jordan, Hussein declined to give up his treaty and his financial ties with London. Why should he trade the dependability of the British Exchequer for bondage to the Saudi royal family, blood enemies of his Hashemite clan? He seemed genuinely shocked by the uproar in Britain over...
...successfully that she has taken first money five other times. Patty Berg's record puts her far ahead of ailing Babe Didrikson Zaharias, her closest competitor, who took three Titleholder championships (1947, '50, '52). The prize money is $5,000, half of what the men accept as a minimum for a respectable tournament...
...many academic quarters) who feels he has nothing to learn from men of other views and who will refuse to consider facts that may threaten his doctrinal security, and the scholar who commits himself to views he considers correct at the time when they are under his scrutiny. To accept certain theological conclusions no more disqualifies a person from competent scholarship in this field than belief in democracy and voting in election time disqualifies a man from competent research in the field of Government...
...have become institutionalized into a professional pressure group, and have taken on some of its unpleasant characteristics. No issue is too large or small for your focus. You complain about tin can labels, where the Navy parks its ships. Like the American Legion you seem to accept the conspiracy theory of history," he accused...
...Lloyd flew on to Karachi, by way of New Delhi, Pakistan chose that moment to declare itself an Islamic republic and to emphasize its optional ties to the British Empire. "We accept the Queen not as our sovereign, but as the symbol of free association of the Commonwealth," declared Prime Minister Chaudri Mohammed...