Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...reject reliance upon weapons of mass destruction, and the logic of deterrence, as the final arbiter of international conflict...
...focus in our efforts to achieve universal disarmament: Until the inadequacy of the military response to existing world conflict is fully and openly realized and we flatly reject reliance on mass destruction, disarmament negotiations cannot be expected to meet the urgency of our existing situation. To take nuclear test ban negotiations as an example only as our perspective changes will we reverse our assessment of the risks in the Geneva negotiations. With a commitment to the abolition of nuclear weapons, the possibility of undetected small yield explosions becomes acceptable. We achieve in exchange the acceptance, in principle and in fact...
...exports that South Africa is expected to lose this year as a result of the boycott of South African goods by Ghana. Malaya, the West Indies and others. And all South African businessmen are haunted by the fear that if Verwoerd proclaims a republic, other Commonwealth members may reject South Africa's request to remain, nonetheless, within the Commonwealth and its preferential tariff system...
...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...
...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...