Word: reject
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patients are free to use the plan or not as they choose. They can pick their own doctor. Doctors are free to accept or reject a patient, and they are able to determine the kind and extent of treatment they will use. Doctors do not become government employees nor are patients compelled to go to any doctor they do not wish to. Administration will be as decentralized as possible with local groups composed of lay and medical personnel taking care of the bulk of it. Patient-doctor relationships will be unaltered. The major change from the private medical system will...
...Atlantic pact (which requires a two-thirds majority), Acheson would be forced to ask a handout from a Congress which still hoped to get through the session without saddling a deficit on the country. If pact and handout were wrapped too tightly together, Acheson apparently feared, Congress might reject both. So Dean Acheson set out to prove that arms and the pact logically belonged together-but were really separate. It took some twisting of the tongue, even for a practiced diplomat...
...could not openly reject the plea. "Your message has been received," he wired back. "Our party is very willing to adopt lenient policies." But his heart was not in his terse reply; his heart was with his troops. At week's end, under able Generals Chen Yi and Lin Piao, they were prodding the Nationalists from their last footholds on the Yangtze's north bank. For the first time in the civil war, Red shells whined across the muddy river into the Nationalist southland...
...spry man with a Germanic love of theory, Marcks makes no bones about what he thinks art should be. "It must be stimulating," he says. "I reject any art that simply amuses. Stimulation, as I interpret it, means leading men to the eternal laws, away from what is common, usual and mean...
...book is so simply written that any reader may grasp its hopeless message; and even those who furiously reject Eliot's thoroughly reactionary and dogmatic conclusions will be bound to agree that he has forced them into the healthy exercise of having to think furiously, too. Eliot's Notes starts by challenging people who use the word "culture" without ever pausing to think of what it means. To the average citizen, culture is a handy catchall into which to dump the arts, education, plumbing, science and any other pursuits that seem to be elements of modern civilization...