Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stop Hitler! When the Germans successively won back the Saar, remilitarized the Rhine, took Austria and the Sudetenland, they always took pains to make out some sort of a case for themselves which an ever diminishing group of friends in the outside world was more or less willing to accept. Last week the treaty-breaking, lie-telling German Dictator had few friends left anywhere outside his and Italy's borders and along with the last shreds of his nation's honor he threw away all pretense of being anything but a Conqueror. Instead of trying to think...
Five years ago, and with fine New England hauteur, Harvard refused to accept proffered aid from President Roosevelt's N. Y. A. Presumably taking the attitude that the college can care for her own, an offer of $135 for each of approximately 300 students was refused. Now that new sources of money must be found for the floundering Temporary Student Employment Plan--floundering because dining hall profits no longer exist--this bit of misdirected individualism appears all the more unfortunate...
...expanding it, there is every reason in favor of doing so. Supplementing rather than replacing T. S. E., the N. Y. A. aid could be extended to commuters, and, perhaps, to graduate students. If it must, in order to preserve its peace of mind, an ever-wary Harvard can accept the aid on a year-to-year basis; but in order to rise above pride and petty individualism, the University must at least accept what is certainly a government's enlightened generosity...
...When Mrs. Wilson "in desperation" asked her husband to accept the Hitchcock reservations to the Treaty of Versailles in order to get it ratified by the Senate and have "this awful thing settled," he replied: "Little girl, don't you desert me. . . . Better a thousand times to go down fighting than to dip your colours to dishonorable compromise...
...appointment. After that Belgian statesmen struggled to form Cabinets, failed in dizzy succession. Soon the suspicion was rife that the King had dictatorial ambitions. Last week a shortlived Cabinet-that of Walloon Premier Hubert Pierlot-was again about to resign when His Majesty stepped in. He refused to accept the resignations, ordered new elections on April 2 and then sat down and wrote his ministers an extraordinary letter in which he pleaded not guilty of either dictatorial ambitions or of appointing Dr. Martens. Without mincing words, the King fitted the shoe on the foot of his ministers...