Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chiang argues that the Nationalist air force can do the job alone. He also insists that the decision must come soon. No patriotic Chinese can accept the idea, he says, that the troops and civilians on Quemoy must, for some abstract moral reason, take artillery pounding until they starve to death...
...announcement of the new Cabinet set off fresh protests from Christians and pro-Western Moslems. Chehab's choice for Premier was Rashid Karami, 37, a Moslem lawyer who led the rebel resistance in Tripoli. Chamoun's most fanatical backers vowed that they would fight rather than accept a Premier from "the barricades." From the mountain village to which he had retired, Chamoun fanned the flames with a statement: "The new Cabinet is not satisfactory to me." Members of the khaki-shirted Christian Phalange, a strong-arm outfit that has been in the forefront of the Lebanese fighting, printed...
...such a plan proved workable, says Kissinger, it might be possible to go on to further disarmament measures. But Soviet leaders, he adds, will never accept genuine disarmament as long as Western irresolution leads them to hope that they can "undermine the will to resist aggression with the only effective weapon now at our disposal...
...point of the "dreaming of Lord Jim"--when someone else might say "composing" and then goes on to detail the elaborate pains Conrad took over each phrase to insure total control of the material and of the reader. Guerard's combination of reverie and manipulation is difficult to accept; to be sure, Marlowe sometimes mentions--and conveys--the dreamlike quality of his tales, but we must attribute the dream to him, not to Conrad, for Guerard himself has taught us not to confuse the two of them. These efforts at psycho-mythical interpretation often contain real insights; what is lacking...
Dawson explained that although the underdeveloped nations accept the basic ideas of Western culture, their hostility toward the major powers arises from their fear of Western predominance...