Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cause-and-effect relationship between smoking and such premature deaths, and Dr. Lister knew just what to do. On the death certificate, on the line for "cause of death," he wrote: "Carcinoma (cancer) of bronchus due to excessive smoking." This was unheard of. The registrar harrumphed, refused to accept the certificate. That meant there had to be an inquest-before Coroner R. Ian Milne, a layman who happens to be an unreformed smoker, Cried Milne: "I would take issue with any doctor who used such a term as 'excessive' in a death certificate. [That] is to judge...
...weeks ago it was reported to me that Mario Del Monaco had canceled Aida, and they gave him another opera. So why pick on me? Is it because I am an American? The others are all foreigners." Said Bing: Tebaldi had canceled Traviata only after she agreed to accept a substitute role, and Del Monaco's cancellation in Aida had been arranged in ample time...
...Creating a new House is an adventurous undertaking," Bullitt continued. "We want active students to participate in building a House worthy of the other seven. We are not interested in people trying to escape from their present House. Quincy will admit only students who accept it on its own merits, not as an escape," he added...
...West can remain united in its insistence on an inspection system, however, it can afford to compromise on its other demands, and accept a test ban for a five or ten year period. The prospect that Russia would agree to the compromise, while not particularly good, cannot be ruled out. After all, it was the Soviet Union which proposed at last year's meeting of the U.N. General Assembly that nuclear tests be stopped for two or three years...
...method, that of military dictatorship, may be as hard for Americans to accept as the man. But surely the ten years since Jinnah's death argue well against democracy. As Ayub's former partner said at the time of the coup, "I am quite certain that we could never have fair and honest elections. When we did hold municipal elections in Karachi only 28 per cent voted and a full 50 per cent of the votes were bogus." Mirza concluded that "Democracy without education is hypocrisy without limitation...