Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your account of the murderous assault attempted on Mr. Rountree leads me to think that any day now we will be able to persuade the Iraqis to accept a generous contribution from us. Just to keep them friendly, you know (and out of the lap of the Russians)-like Nasser (whose trained mobs stoned Americans passing out free CARE packages), and Tito (who has kindly accepted $900 million from us, and voted recently with Russia on the Hungarian resolutions...
...educational policy makers and the American public are willing to accept as "higher education" classes of 100 or more, in which the hallowed "two-way togetherness or communication" is nonexistent, then President Martin is correct in his experimentation. How much better would it be if those hypercritical educational associations cited in TIME were to get behind this project rather than spending their time throwing up roadblocks against what no doubt many of their members feel is a potential threat to pedagogic job security...
Foster replied, "I think it is within the right of the Class to ask for a new election even if the first one was honest." The majority, in disagreeing with this position, apparently consider the matter closed. Earlier in the day Dean Watson declined to accept the petition, commenting that he could take no action...
...black boots, blowing cigar smoke in the face of his victims, cheaply adjusting theory to exigency and blindly following his vision of the party line-- he is the subject of a thousand Western caricatures. With Sputniks today whizzing about the head of Apollo, it's difficult to accept the proposition that the Soviet Union is administered by men who believe the charm of a piston ring exceeds that of a milk maid, who see challenge only in the mundane decisions of tactics, not in the grand and original plans of strategy...
...application to Quincy House yours must be, at least for the moment, put aside. As you may know, the Masters agreed that each House would contribute approxmiately the same number of applicants who would colonize Quincy House. Consequently, I have been forced--since I have only eighty vacancies--to accept in each of the seven Houses only a small proportion of the men I would like to have associated with me in this enterprise. I shall, however, keep your name of the waiting list, and if new vacancies occur I shall be in touch with...