Word: accept
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Harry Truman reversed himself. He announced that, if Congress insisted, he would accept the authority to control prices-but only on a stand-by basis. House Banking & Currency Committee Chairman Brent Spence stitched together a new bill along these lines. Then the fight began over the rival Spence and Kunkel bills...
...tireless and driving a man Walker is. There were no wasted seconds-even for lunch. The general did suggest that I take time out to eat with the drivers while he was conferring at a regimental command post, but I was too interested in the conference to accept his offer...
...regents had no trouble disposing of the first six; they fired them. The big argument came over the 39. "The question is," said Governor Earl Warren, "have any of us any evidence that any one of the 39 is a Communist? ... If not, then accept the recommendation...
Once, parents would have had no choice but to accept this verdict and await the worst. But modern medical science presented the Haires with a cruel dilemma. They might, said the doctors, have one of Becky's eyes removed to make sure that she was suffering from cancer of the optic nerve, which might then be arrested. The second eye might have to be removed later. The alternative: Becky's eyes might be treated with X rays and radium. The doctors believed that she would have a 60% chance to recover after surgery, only 35% after radiation...
...mediation session last week, the W-T & S management offered job security and union security clauses like those in the New York Times contract. The Guild replied that it would accept the entire Times contract, but not just its "worst features." Management withdrew its offer. It also took a full-page ad in the Times, restating Editor Roy W. Howard's objection to any kind of editorial Guild shop as "prejudicial to . . . objectivity...