Word: accomplies
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...political situation still does not illuminate the question of what will happen when troops leave Central High. There can only be guesses, but probably the limited integration will be accepted as a fait accompli, even though a thoroughly disliked...
...agriculture. This all may be true enough, but the Secretary's hasty appraisal is not the way to counter the Soviet gambit. Countries keeping an appraising eye on the two world foes see perpetual Russian smiles and perpetual American frowns. They are presented by the Kremlin with a fait accompli, a reduction of arms and men in arms. Expecting to see the West follow with some sort of similar action, they see only the scowling countenance of Mr. Dulles, scoffing, skeptical, facilely explaining the not-so-obvious...
Presumably, this day of judgement will not arrive until the Corporation changes its policy and voluntarily goes to court, jeopardizing its million-dollar investment. But now the yellow leaf has fallen into the sere, and the Gray Herbarium is a fait accompli...
...West "must recognized the fall accompli of China's Red government," Sundaram said. He added that this recognition does not mean that we must support the Chinees communists...
Winter came on and Wadsworth, notwithstanding "the House was not half finished within," moved in anyway. The Overseers suggested completing it on credit, then thrusting the IOUs at the legislature. As indirection and pathos had failed before; so the fait accompli failed here, and Harvard finally had to plumb its own treasury for the eight hundred pounds due. Even then, Wadsworth House was not wholly done. 1783 saw the two wings and the ell on the north side. The brick part was built in 1810 as a separate unit and sixty years later was spun around to adjoin...