Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been proud of his record of maintaing a balance in the budget appeared to accept the idea that the one he sent Congress Monday may be tipped into the red. In that event, and if income is down, he said, "then it would seem to me it would be a bad time to raise taxes, because you want that economy to ... have a little needle; a needle, rather than a check rein...
...provide willing European allies with nuclear weapons and delivery systems-controlled by Europeans-"to give reality to the European sense of participation, which is a basic ingredient of the will to resist." And in the final analysis, whenever the U.S. choice lies between "acquiescence" in Communist aggression and acceptance of a split among allies, "we must act with resolution-or accept grave losses...
...Peace Partisan" Dolci had won the Lenin (formerly Stalin) Peace Prize. Rome's La Giustizia, organ of the Social Democrats, promptly appealed to non-Communist Dolci to reject an award which "comes from the executioners of the workers in Hungary." Dolci did not even hesitate. "I shall always accept, from anywhere, gifts that help my mission of good works," he said. He announced that the $25,000 prize money will be handed over to a committee to establish what he called "a research institute for full employment...
...scientist, mathematician and relative youngster, the Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld, 62. An oldtime suffragette and notorious pincher of sous (says a fellow juror: "She dresses in a splendid mink coat lined with rayon"), the Duchesse blazed in protest when her arch-antagonist grandly announced that she would accept no other Femina choice for 1957 than Le Carre four des Solitudes (The Crossroads of Loneliness), by Christian Mégret...
...Cambridge Review spent a lot of time and pages thinking about the problems of artistic creation and criticized the Advocate for failing to concern itself with such matters. While the latest is sue (December) of the Advocate gives no indication that the magazine itself will ever accept the challenge, it does show clearly that some of the writers it publishes have. One of its poems, "Report of the Artist's Progress to his Doctor" by A. E. Keir Nash is specificaly concerned with the artist and another, "The Exhortation to an Audience, to be Still" by Arthur W. Freeman, indirectly...