Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Marshall went on to the attack. The $6.8 billion was not just an "asking figure," purposely padded in anticipation of congressional cutting. Clenching his fist, he demanded that Congress provide this "adequate" amount or reject his entire proposal. Said he: "An inadequate program would involve a wastage of our resources with an ineffective result. . . . Either undertake to meet the requirements of the problem or don't undertake...
Above all, "Gentleman's Agreement" is a call for action that will be somewhat embarrassing to everyone except those who reject its message right from the beginning. The gentleman's agreement is a compact of silence, it says, and these who tacitly, even if unwillingly, accept anti-semitism as a part of the social system are as guilty as the active bigots. This point is made with a minimum of declamatory speeches: a burning issue has been put frankly before the eyes of the public, and the overall excellence of the movie as a movie should attract many besides...
Disapproval of any of the ideas contained in the 40-point proposal will not kill the statement in toto, since the point-by-point method of voting was designed particularly to retain or amend satisfactory parts and reject those not agreed upon by a majority...
...person trained in a few practical skills is not an educated person, nor is he necessarily "life-adjusted." Only through a solid acquaintance with the humanities can we expect to retain a true perspective of life and of the world in which we live. To reject the so-called "impractical" subjects in our high schools is to deny our cultural heritage. . . . It is tantamount to admitting . . . that learning, as far as we in America are concerned, is nothing more than a quick method for discovering which button to push and when to push...
...substantially altered his doctrine thereafter. An ardent humanist before what he called his "sudden conversion" to Protestantism, he carried his love of truth for its own sake over into his religious teaching: "If we hold that the Spirit of God is the one fountain of truth, we shall neither reject nor despise the truth itself, wherever it appears, unless we wish to be contemptuous of the Spirit of God." Of his central doctrinal position he wrote: "Predestination we call the eternal decree of God by which He has determined with Himself what He would have to become of every...