Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...International Development Association, ante up about one-third of its $1 billion capital over the next five years. The rest of IDA's bankroll will be pumped in by rich and poor nations alike. IDA will make longshot loans with a banker's cool eye but will accept payments in soft currencies as well as hard. By 1961 IDA expects to be pumping out some $160 million a year...
...Gaulle's refusal to allow U.S. nuclear weapons in France unless France controls their use still stands-as does U.S. refusal to accept De Gaulle's conditions. But NATO, which had felt a little unwanted all winter, saw some other friendly signs. Turkey has agreed to accept U.S. Jupiter IRBMs, and negotiations are under way to install missiles in Belgium and The Netherlands. Half a dozen NATO nations, including Canada, Belgium, Denmark, Italy and West Germany, have announced plans to increase their defense spending...
...carry through "the mass withdrawal of [ black] labor from European industries." Just as "Karoo farmers do not waste their time arguing whether the low rainfall of the area they farm in is something they should like or dislike . . . and adapt themselves to it," wrote Fagan, "we have to accept the fact of interdependence of the races in South Africa...
...mantle that Marshal Lott aspires to is that of Getulio Vargas, the demagogic dictator-President who shot himself in 1954, leaving a note blaming his suicide on the pressure of "international financial groups." Last week, three days after leaving the War Ministry, Lott greeted a noisy convention to accept the nomination of Vargas' old Brazilian Labor Party (P.T.B.). "I am a nationalist," he said. "Nationalism is related to patriotism the way charity is to faith...
Rule No. 4: Each partner must accept responsibility in humility and penitence for what his group has done, and is doing, to foster and perpetuate division. "Many Roman Catholics today are saying that the perpetuation of the divisions of Christendom is not simply due to Protestant wrongheadedness, but also due to the wrong kind of Catholic intransigence. Protestants should acknowledge that for centuries the Protestant tendency was to divide Christendom . . . and that if the ecumenical movement is revising this trend, it is still building on the wreckage of three centuries...