Word: rejects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...privilege you here enjoy to voluntarily seek repatriation or to voluntarily reject it is the fruit of ... persistent effort on the part of the United States ... If you should decide not to return . . . you will have made a most fateful decision...
About 140 sophomores are making the most important decision of their undergraduate social lives this morning. The College's final clubs last night chose their members from the class of '56; those elected were notified at 8:00 a.m. by club members; by noon the sophomore must accept or reject all bids. And as one student sits in his room choosing between the club his great-grandfather belonged to and the one his friends have picked, the rest of the College sleeps or goes to class, oblivious and wholly unconcerned with clubs, club activities, or club membership...
...Harry Truman, in rejecting the subpoena, extended this principle to ex-Presidents, saying: "The doctrine [of separation of powers] would be shattered ... if [the President] would feel during his term of office that his every act might be subject to official inquiry and possible distortion for political purposes." Some constitutional lawyers doubted that Truman, as a private citizen, had a right to reject the subpoena without hearing what questions the committee wanted to ask. They said that he 1) would not have to answer questions relating to state secrets, but 2) would have to answer questions bearing on any charge...
Recesses were social occasions: Mossadegh greeted newsmen as "my friends" and mugged for the photographers. One photographer asked him to pose smoking a cigarette. "I've never smoked before," he said, but he took the cigarette and blew the smoke through his nostrils. "Only animals reject gifts," he explained, grinning...
...Socialists reject it on the ground of Socialist dogma: capitalist nations cannot be progressive; the U.S. is capitalist: therefore, the U.S. is an anti-social exploiter, Q.E.D. British Socialists have a special resentment against American capitalism: it works. A decaying American capitalism could be treated with the tolerance and condescension that is the hallmark of the Fabian spirit. But neither Fabius nor Sidney Webb would know what to do with a capitalist enemy that really achieves its ends. The success of American capitalism in raising American living standards can neither be believed nor forgiven. It can only be evaded...