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Word: accepting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twice in eleven years, in its anxiety to strengthen their hold on Eastern Europe, Russia has sought to snuff out Berlin's liberty. By their refusal to panic, their stouthearted willingness to risk economic hardship rather than accept subjection, Berliners have won the world's admiration. Today, in the tower of Berlin's City Hall, hangs the "Freedom Bell"-a copy of Philadelphia's Liberty Bell, given to Berlin by the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERLIN: The Islanders | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...people who have long since learned to look reality in the face, Willy Brandt's Berliners unflinchingly accept the prospect that they will remain islanders for a long time to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERLIN: The Islanders | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

When Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl '09 returns to Cambridge for his class' 50th reunion this June he will offer the University the $1000 it refused to accept in 1934. At that time Hanfstaengl was Adolph Hitler's foreign press agent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Putzi Hanfstaengl to Attend 50th Reunion With Rejected $1000 Gift | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...College's most pressing problems. Ever-rising costs make the commuter a necessity, but the thirty years since the Houses were established have amply demonstrated that the non-resident easily becomes separated from the College: it is regrettable that the Administration has been willing to accept this and simply try to improve the present situation rather than completely replacing...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: A Home Is Not a House | 5/20/1959 | See Source »

Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko countered with a proposal in the Big Four conference that the United States, Britain, and France drop their drive to reunite Germany and accept a Soviet blueprint for a peace treaty with each of the German states, East and West...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Foreign Ministers of Big Three Score Soviet Plans for Germany; Nuclear Weapons Talks Continue | 5/20/1959 | See Source »

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