Word: rejectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days later, Stalin told Truman that he had received still another Japanese request that the Soviets serve as peacemakers, intended to reject it. Truman thanked him for the information. In rapid-fire order, the U.S. bombed Hiroshima, Russia declared war and set the stage for its seizure of Manchuria, the U.S. bombed Nagasaki, Japan surrendered. The irony is that the Japanese did not surrender unconditionally. They wangled the only real concession that they had been holding out for: a government nominally headed by the Emperor...
Such a picture of God is suitable only for the grimmer kind of fairy tales and not for adults with freedom to think and read. Anyway, even without the proofs of science, one has to reject the idea of a God who looks like man and acts like a poor specimen of the race out of hand...
...Sacred Congregation of Rites is considering other changes in the baptismal liturgy. Under the old formula, codified in 1614, the priest called upon ex-pagans to "hold idols in horror, reject images," ex-Jews to "hold in horror and reject Hebrew superstition," ex-Moslems to "reject the wicked sect of infidelity," and ex-Protestants to "hold in horror wicked heresy, reject the nefarious sect of impious [name of denomination]." To make things easier for converts, much of this language may soon be toned down...
When the two were married the following year, Magrina became her manager. What led him to reject a law career, he says, was the realization that she would need a manager and that such a responsibility should not fall to a stranger: "At least I am honest and sincere." Magrina claims responsibility for having persuaded De los Angeles to leave Spain for the more lucra tive climate of La Scala and the Met. Today he handles all contract negotiations, has long since become inured to being addressed by his wife's name. Says he: "Victoria sings, but later...
...believe your Communist ideology to be sterile, unsound and doomed to failure. We believe that your children will reject the intellectual prison in which you seek to confine them, and that ultimately they will choose the eternal principles of freedom...