Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coast. The Icelanders had succeeded in getting nine men aboard the trawler Northern Foam when the British frigate Eastbourne charged at flank speed onto the scene. The nine boarders were quickly subdued, bundled into a motor launch and ferried back to Thor. But Thor's skipper refused to accept them, on grounds that the British had used coercion in removing them from the trawler. Reluctantly, the skipper of the Eastbourne took the Icelanders aboard his own ship-not as prisoners, but as "guests" of the British Admiralty...
...have too often grown tarnished between victory and delivery; e.g., the all-expenses-paid vacation in Europe provided no hotel room, only a flight to Paris and home the next day. There was evidence that contestants on certain shows had signed away their prizes before going on, undertaking to accept their TV winnings for far less cash than their real value. The best defense that network officials and their spring-legged pressagents could make in private was that the quiz shows were not really crooked but only hippodromed, like a wrestling match; i.e., they merely rig the questions so that...
Long before the investigations cease, TV bigwigs may be ready to accept Herb Stempel's forthright solution for their scandal: "Get rid of giveaways. All these vaults and isolation booths are just obfuscation of the public. The networks can't control the gimmicks and the gizmos...
Last week the Post came to the public conclusion that magazine morality no longer demands a ban on booze. Starting with the Oct. 4 issue, it will accept liquor advertising. Said Curtis President Robert MacNeal: "The change in policy is deemed to be appropriate at this time and compatible with the viewpoint of the vast majority of [the Post's'] present and potential audience." Annual revenue increase for the magazine could be in the millions, a big boost for a magazine whose income from advertising during the first half of this year was down...
...there is skepticism over Ike's third point, the International Development Association. The association would make long-term low-interest loans for projects the bank did not want to back because the borrower might not be able to pay back the money in hard currency. The IDA would accept repayments in soft currency...