Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courts; six years have passed since he last called his United Mine Workers out on a major strike. But last week, old John L. showed that his roar can still jolt the coal industry. The mere threat of a U.M.W. strike was enough to make unionized soft-coal operators accept costly new contract terms, topped by a $2-a-day wage boost, which will bring the union miner's standard pay to $24.25 a day. John L. has generally accepted labor-saving machinery and consequent boosts in productivity, but these have not been enough, soft-coal companies implied...
...KENNAN PLAN. With sweeping simplicity, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia George Kennan a year ago suggested that in return for complete withdrawal of Soviet forces from Eastern Europe, all U.S. troops should leave Continental Europe. Like Gaitskell, Kennan is willing to accept German neutrality as the price of German reunification...
...considering the possibility, for instance, that the people of Taiwan will choose to return to China rather than remain independent. John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, commenting on the point raised by Lattimore, said the United States "would be smart to come out openly with a decision to accept the expression any time in the future of the people of Taiwan to join the mainland...
Also on the positive side, said Johanson, is the fact that Argentina is beginning drastic action to end its economic crisis. "Too many people expected an easy miracle," he commented. In addition, the Venezuelan military group has said that it will accept any candidate who may be chosen in the national elections...
...novel, and when the serious novel itself "concentrates on the whacky," as it does today, and "starts from the conviction that society and all who dwell in it are disagreeable and worthless," the detective story is simply thrown off its feed. Good detective fiction needs "a world that we accept because it is conventional . . . Why pursue the criminal if the victim and society are not worth protecting...