Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Campus. Before Louis Johnson's arrival, university politics had been dominated by the upper-crust fraternities. Louis soon changed all that, at least for his day. The Betas, the Dekes, the Sigma Chis would all have been delighted to accept the big, aggressive kid with the curly black hair and determined chin. But Louis became a Delta Chi, organized a merger of lesser fraternities and non-fraternity men and began winning student elections with monotonous regularity...
...West was not sanguine that Russia would accept this position. It expected no dramatic general settlement. But it felt reasonably sure that the Russians wanted a limited agreement. If so, at what point...
...club presidents will also meet soon to decide whether they will include "the Sphinx" in the inter-club agreement, which says that no final club can elect a member of another final club. Whatever they decide, the Sphinx will still be considered a final club in that it will accept no one from the other clubs...
...position on the eve of the conference was approximately as follows: i) the Russians must give a clear guarantee of the West's rights in Germany; 2) the Russians must accept West Germany's democratic constitution as the basis for any all-German regime; 3) any political setup for Russia's Eastern Germany must be the result of free, Four-Power supervised elections; 4) the U.S. will not now agree to the withdrawal of occupation troops from Germany (although talk persisted that the U.S. might consider moving its troops to port cities and the French frontier...
...Mussolini and ranking prewar playgirl of Fascist Italy, was anticipating a tidy windfall: the U.S. Government was expected to release to her some $40,000 in royalties on her late husband's Ciano Diaries, now that the Italian government had decided it was all right for her to accept...