Word: rejects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short, an atmosphere was building in which it would be made difficult, rather than easy, for a prisoner to refuse to go home. Churchill didn't seem to mind. Just how the U.S. feels has not yet been made clear. It did not reject the Red proposals out of hand, but contented itself with asking the Reds some pertinent questions about details...
...time we stopped thinking about the Bunches and the Robesons as credits or discredits to their race. If they are anything, they are credits or discredits to themselves and their country. It is the frustration of being thought of in purely racial terms that leads men like Robeson to reject the ethics of democracy for the false promises of communism. The individual Negro wants nothing more than to be accepted as an American with the same freedom from race labeling that all other Americans enjoy. Walter Carrington...
...meeting provides a perfect opportunity for the Corporation to get the job finished. According to formal procedure, the Corporation must first ask permission to select a new president; then, at the next meeting, the Overseers either reject or ratify...
...that point, City Council President Rudolph Halley saw a fat political opportunity: New York straphangers are presumed to be exceedingly touchy about their 10? fare. A seasoned TV performer (Kefauver committee counsel), Halley went on TV with a plan of his own: reject the Dewey plan, balance the budget by strict economy-a hollow plan with which Politician Impellitteri had toyed. Impellitteri, without any plan of his own beyond a determination not to bring up the subject of the subway fare, denounced the scheme as "Halley's folly...
...forced march to catch up." Any Hope? Not only Russia, but the World's other West-fearing civilizations -Islam, India, the Far East - have adopted Western technology and ideas in self-defense. But the World has accepted only the more trivial parts of Western civilization: it resolutely rejects Western religion and values. Here, Toynbee's readers get a new Toynbean equation, the Law of En counters: "When a traveling culture-ray is diffracted into its component strands ... by the resistance of a social body upon which it has impinged, its techno logical strand is apt to penetrate faster...