Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is our final offer," Britton said. 'If the Union won't accept it, I presume there will be a strike...
...acceptability of the foregoing principle depends upon organization of the scholarly community in ways that produce both loyalty and the relief of grievances. The government of a university depends, even more than that of a political community, upon the consent of all the governed to accept decisions reached by its constitutional processes. The consent of the dissenters depends partly upon their knowing that their views effectively entered into the process of consensus, even though they did not prevail. They must also be convinced that the opportunities for change are open and the goals and stance of the enterprise are sufficiently...
...anything, Thornberry's case is more susceptible to charges of cronyism than Fortas's. In 1948, when Johnson joined the Senate, Thornberry became Congressman in Johnson's place. For fifteen years, until he retired to accept a District Judgeship in late 1963, Thornberry held the central Texas seat, and remained a good domino-playing friend of Johnson's. As a Senator, and later as Vice-President, Johnson often referred to him as "my congressman...
...that many live in Cambridge, competing for what few low-cost housing units are available, and winning the competition because of a greater ability to pay. This, we contend, is the cause of the steadily escalating rents, and it is something for which the institutions of this city must accept primary responsibility...
...ACCEPT IT. Hunter has a long way to go. For the moment he needs the props. If you can see them as metaphors, you can see beyond them...