Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President would be happy to dodge the fight by accepting Strauss's resignation. Replied Ike: "I wouldn't accept Lewis' resignation even if he offered it. You can go out and say that when you leave this room." Dirksen did-and with the battle lines thus firmly, flatly drawn, the confirmation of Lewis Strauss finally came to the Senate floor after months of wrangling and wrestling...
...study of the West German constitution his lawyers said no. All the while, inside the Christian Democratic Party, a bitter fight was developing over who should succeed Adenauer as chancellor. The old man himself favored Finance Minister Franz Etzel, a quiet corporation lawyer who could be counted upon to accept tutelage. But the majority of Christian Democratic leaders clearly preferred-and intended to get-independent-minded Ludwig Erhard whose voter appeal is almost equal to that of Adenauer himself...
...about the lack of progress as he arrived home from a quick tour of two of the most lackluster outposts of his empire, Albania and Hungary. He was still talking darkly of establishing rocket bases in Albania and Bulgaria if Italy and Greece went through with their plans to accept U.S. missiles...
...months afterward, Cannon seemed to accept the defeat. Then, late last April, the name of State Representative Bedford Black vanished from the news columns of the Kannapolis daily Independent (circ. 10,950). Cannon owns the Independent building and the ground it stands on, and his son-in-law owns a controlling interest in the paper...
...advertising and research costs but a difference in quality that is greater than the difference in price. Instead of creating new products and new markets, private brands merely scramble to copy new products of national brands. So accustomed have national branders become to private-label imitation that they accept it almost philosophically. Says Durkee Famous Foods Vice President Harvey Slaughter: "We have 25 people working up new items to go out under our own label, but within six months, private-label processors copy the product, and we are forced to make them available ourselves under private labels...