Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonderfully exciting time-if his eardrums hold out. And at that delirious moment when the hush falls on Convention Hall, and Sam Rayburn introduces the NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, the Democrats can only hope that someone has survived to come marching out to accept the nomination...
Then, when the punchee must choose one among several invitations if he is an especially desirable prospect, the Club whose dinner he attends may feel reasonably sure he will accept if elected. Voting is held the following night, and those who escape the blackballs are notified of their election at 8 a.m. the next morning. They must accept or refuse by noon, and in the intervening hours the club members wait anxiously behind the front door to greet the accepting sophomores (outside on the steps, for they are not yet official members...
...realm of story-telling to that of contractual relationships between public officials and the people they hire to build bridges, dig tunnels, bulldoze beaches,, and supply the flowers on funerals and other state occasions. It was to the everlasting disgrace of the Boston Finance Committee that they failed to accept this application...
...made them; petty and unsympathetic attempts to verify his remarks rendered an individual unworthy of Curley's further attention. His attitude toward facts resembled that of the student of the earliest Byzantine or Russian history who, in the absence of evidence, let alone verification, must not only accept the meagre suppositions that come his way, but must mold them, conn them, fashion them, shape them, corrupt them, must spin a whole universe out of the air so as to have any at all; who, having done so, steps aside, and by means of subsequently sustained inattention, accords his creation...
...kick off the campaign Curley held a banquet, and invited all to speak. The professor, Eugene Wambaugh, began enthusiastically to tell the Boston audience that they could not nominate Smith, since the South would never accept a Catholic. As an observer noted, "A look of bewilderment and chagrin crossed Curley's face..." He got the professor off the platform as soon as he could...