Word: rejects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer of 1953, fourteen colleges and universities throughout the country refused to sign contracts to participate in the preparation of the correspondence courses when the Department insisted upon the insertion of a clause giving itself power to reject faculty members for security reasons...
...alarmists are right only in that there is much to fear today. But if the academic world were to grant the conclusion that there is little or no hope, the baleful predictions might well come true. When more universities reject self-pity and take instead a forthright stand against each unfounded attack, then education can match, in its own defense, that spirit of progress and initiative which has marked its advance in every other intellectual endeavor...
...Overseers have little authority. For example, when the Corporation selected Eliot as their choice for President in 1869, they were required to get the consent of the Overseers. Some members of the Faculty, principally the classicists and scientists, were unalterably opposed to him, however, and influenced the Overseers to reject him. Eliot's nomination was returned to the Corporation on April 21. By May 19, the Overseers had decided to agree after all. The Corporation had merely stood firm on its choice and the Overseers, after a second refusal, finally capitulated...
...assumed the role of a presidential emissary. With Taruc's son Romeo, I met Taruc a second time. He was greatly disappointed at the President's refusal to meet him, but he was careful not to reject our terms outright. Instead, he made a counterproposal: a "cease-fire," with all military operations frozen while he consulted his Huk advisers. I told Taruc that President Magsaysay would never agree to a "cease-fire," which would simply take pressure off the guerrillas. Negotiations bogged down...
...hastily laid plans stepped Britain's Anthony Eden. To the Communists' charge that Russia and China are the sole champions of Asian nationalist aspirations, Eden pointed out that since the war, India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon have all achieved independence from Britain. "Therefore I resent and reject the suggestion that we ignore or oppose the tide of national feeling in Asia, and I ask: Where is there real national freedom-in Colombo or in Ulan Bator [capital of Outer Mongolia], in Delhi or in Pyongyang...