Word: rejects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinas have been in existence for several years and there is little prospect of their merging in the near future. So long as this situation prevails, we shall have to reject the idea of one China, because we cannot turn over the eight million people on Formosa to Communist rule. Nor should our recognition of Peking, if this should occur, affect our close ties with the Republic of China government...
...desk, the facts presented to him are as reliable as the U.S. Administration as a whole can make them, and the choices before him are clearly spelled out. If possible, the NSC and the Cabinet try to send up an agreed Administration position that he can either accept, reject or revise...
...reunification of Germany, with freedom to choose or reject its alliances. "We are, I believe, in agreement that the division of Germany creates an intolerable situation...
...tensions which flow in part from huge growing armaments can be achieved." Russia's Sobolev said that he was ready "to cooperate ... in the solution of these important tasks which brook no delay." But when the Russians were asked to say whether they would accept or reject the U.S. plan, smiling and agreement ceased...
Rantys & Dhyantys. Jaunswar women who live with their several husbands are called rantys. Custom obliges them to treat each husband with equal favor, but it often happens that a ranty will prefer one brother to all the others. It also happens that a ranty will reject the whole pack of brothers for an outsider. After trial by the entire village, an adulterous ranty is fined the cost of a community dinner (paid for by her parents), after which her husbands may have her back, readily forgiving and forgetting because women are so scarce...