Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offered no comment on the fact that the compulsory News proposition had failed to win a majority of the entire student vote. This majority of the total enrollment--not just of those voting--had been announced before and frequently during the balloting as necessary either to pass or to reject any one of the three subjects under discussion...
...more righteous and more moral democracy. We have learned in these days to look at things with harshly realistic eyes. By an uncontrolled terrible strength ensuing from the contrast of two opposite world ideologies, we were faced with facts which we had either to accept totally or reject totally. Every one of us had to do so. There was no other...
...chief moral problem: an industrialist (Edward G. Robinson) faces ruin if he is scrupulous enough to reject some defective war material. Moved by greed and devotion to his family, he passes the defective material along. He also tricks his partner (Frank Conroy) into taking the rap. Thousands of miles away, young men in U.S. uniforms die because of his crookedness. His younger son-rather uncon-incingly-commits suicide in protest; his elder son (Burt Lancaster) returns home to ferret out his secret. The father becomes at last fully aware of the dimensions of his crime and of the shallowness...
...fate of the New Student will be decided once for all this afternoon when the Faculty Committee on Student Activities meets to accept or reject the Student Council's recommendations on the controversial magazine...
...first of all, the constitutional duty of the President of the U.S. to develop and propose a suitable policy. It was then up to the people's representatives in Congress. They would have to affirm, reject or amend the policy the Administration proposed. The next move was up to the Administration's operating heads in Washington. In the long run, the success of any foreign policy depended on its imaginative and energetic execution. As chief operating head of the State Department, execution was Bob Lovett's job. It was the job for which George Marshall had hand...