Word: accepts
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Maurice Lavanoux, the good grey secretary of Manhattan's Liturgical Arts Society, gave strong support to that idea. In the U.S., he declared, church-goods houses "have debased the taste of generations of worshipers" by filling churches with mass-produced, painted-plaster "catalogue Virgins." Most parishes, Lavanoux added, "accept this practice because they think it is the normal thing, but the capacity of the average parishioner for accepting good art has been greatly underestimated . . . We need the contemporary artist to help us end the scandal of the trash that is in our churches...
...Mexico, said, with what he described as "a heart filled with strong emotions": "I have been summoned by the President of the U.S. to undertake a job of vital importance to our nation's interest. I feel it my duty in this period of national crisis to accept this assignment." (Another duty in a period of national crisis he left unfinished: that of preparing the nation's biggest city against atomic attack.) That evening the O'Dwyers left New York...
...Kirkpatrick went on to explain just what it would take to get right with the committee again. He had once been forced to apologize publicly after Actor Fredric March and his wife Florence Eldridge had convincingly denied his charges that they were Communists. But he was not prepared to accept Actress Muir's denials so easily. "Times have changed since then," he said...
...when the President took his stand on the big political question of the hour. Said Alemán: "Talk has begun, against my expressed wishes, of my re-election as President of the republic (TIME, June 5). I wish to state firmly once more my unbreakable decision . . . not to accept such an intent, and to call on persons working for that end to desist." The Congressmen's responding roar was the day's most deafening. Every ambitious politico among them heaved a great sigh of relief as he saw the track cleared for the 1952 race. Very likely...
...Association. The tables show more deaths among people whose blood pressure exceeds 140 mm. systolic and 90 mm. diastolic.* This fact is meaningless, they argue, because blood pressure usually increases naturally with age. So the thing to do is forget about an "ideal" reading, start with healthy people and accept their readings as normal...