Word: accept
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Liaison Council. On the council was the influential head of the United Malay National Organization, spruce, bespectacled, British-educated Dato Onn bin Jafaar, 54, once a violent baiter of Chinese. Several months of round-table parleys, plus the mounting Communist threat, converted Dato Onn. He publicly proclaimed: "Malays must accept as full nationals those of other races who are prepared to give their all to the country...
Continuous creation? To many people the very idea seems startling or even shocking. Hoyle and his colleagues do not consider it so. It should not be more difficult to accept, they argue, than the common belief that the universe was created all at once in the distant past. In their own words, the hydrogen "just appears." Where it comes from they do not know, or if it comes from "anywhere" in the ordinary sense. Perhaps, they admit, man will never know. In any case, they leave to the theologians the capitalized word Creation to explain the genesis of the whole...
...past, professors have seldom left either of the two universities to accept a similar appointment at the other. The best-known transfer occurred 25 years ago when George P. Baker '87, professor of English, left Cambridge for New Haven after Yale accepted the gift of a School of Drama which President Lowell had refused...
...able to bring a strong case before the U.N. in the event of any trouble with Russia. Her proposal, as modified in the U.N., would enable her to do just that. It provides that within twenty-four hours of the outbreak of hostilities, both parties express their willingness to accept an immediate cease-fire on conditions prescribed by the U.N., with any nation that does not comply being officially branded an aggressor...
Neither does Mr. Waugh need this from me. But I hope he will accept me on his side...