Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot accept the result that the Communists seek. Neither can we show, now, a weakness of purpose-a timidity-which would surely lead them to move more aggressively against us and our friends in the western Pacific area...
...many a year; even Republicans admit that he has been the most effective Governor in the last 50 years. He got the credit and Republicans the ill will last spring when he called a special legislative session, proposed to extend recession-ridden Maine's unemployment aid or accept federal help, was turned down by G.O.P. legislators. Just three days before election, President Eisenhower vetoed the Payne-sponsored bill to provide federal funds for depressed areas. Another economic factor: the 57,000-member A.F.L.-C.I.O. poured $40,000 into the campaign on behalf of Democratic candidates, takes credit for electing...
...avocation," and he stands almost alone as a music major with jazz orientation. He feels the great percentage of music faculty members snub their noses at jazz, and moreover thinks this is "strange, and a shame, for well-schooled musicians." The reaction is ironically negative: "they won't accept jazz as an art form, when in a way it's the only art form that's truly American...
...Harvard is to commit herself to an "Honors for all" program, in all fairness to the undergraduates she has the obligation to accept only those most likely to benefit from Honors work. It is a hard choice to make between the athlete and the grind, but this choice is the test of the University's seriousness of intent relative to upgrading Harvard education...
...hotter, militant partisans of integration are troubled by signs that the Catholic position may be weakening. Speaking to the first National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice at Chicago's Loyola University last week, Chicago's Auxiliary Bishop Raymond P. Hillinger said flatly that those who fail to accept the church's stand for full racial equality "simply are not Catholic, and there are no two ways about it." But the 400 delegates found many a straw in the wind that seemed to be blowing the wrong way. Items...