Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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President Eisenhower has promised that if the Connally Reservation is rescinded, he will use the moral and political authority of the U.S. to urge all the nations of the globe to accept compulsory jurisdiction by the World Court...
Greece and The Netherlands to accept Molotov as Soviet ambassador, some Soviet experts said that Khrushchev was treating his old foe gently just to point up the contrast between Khrushchevian "humanitarianism" and the bad old Stalin days, when politicians usually lost their lives along with their jobs. Others speculated that it made Nikita nervous to have Molotov in a post so near Red China; in the ideological dispute now raging between Russia and China, long-time "hardliner" Molotov would presumably share Peking's view that Khrushchev is dangerously soft on capitalism...
...wants 24 ninth-graders? They graduated last June from George Washington Carver Elementary School in suburban Detroit's Royal Oak Township (pop. 8,000).* Last week every high school in the area refused to accept them. It was not just that the youngsters are Negroes; they also happen to be products of a black hell of vice and corruption...
...Aircraft Co. recently reduced salaries for all employees making more than $12,000 a year by 5% to 25%. After Merritt-Chapman & Scott omitted the quarterly dividend, Chairman and Chief Stockholder Louis E. Wolfson-who can well afford a pay cut-gamely announced last week that he will not accept any of his $100,000-a-year salary until profits pick up and the dividend is resumed...
...superior, an aged and very human monsignor, who takes charge. He also carries the author's message -in purple language and in terms so unorthodox that many a Catholic will find it hard to accept. Long before he saw the lipstick, the monsignor knew that "the demon of concupiscence has been nibbling at the poor boy's glands. How do I know this? Have I not myself been chased through life by the hound of copulation?" Now he advises Bowles: "Go to her, if you must. You are a good man. There is nothing worse than self-deception...