Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University of Chicago. Wallace, while making an essentially emotional appeal, is a functional conservative concerned with such specific issues as segregation and states' rights (but not economy in government; for a Southern Governor, Wallace was a big spender). While the Goldwaters and the Buckleys disdain Wallace and accept the pragmatism of Richard Nixon, there is a large overlap among those who knew in their hearts that Barry was right and those who stand up for America with George. Government has grown so large and social change has been so swift and pervasive that the temptation is to ignore...
...into trouble-and not only on the pornography issue. The skillful managers of the case against Fortas, notably Senator Griffin, saw to it that new revelations about the Associate Justice were brought out almost every day. More doubts were raised by a disclosure last week that Fortas had accepted $15,000 for 18 hours of summer-school teaching at American University's law school. Though some other Justices accept fees, there is an ethical question about whether they should. What aggravates the question of Fortas' particularly generous fee is that it was donated by five big businessmen...
...sources: their parents and the Catholic hierarchy. "Many in my family were ready to consider my wife just a beautiful siren who had tempted me away," explains Frank Ostrowski, 38, who left his Minnesota teaching post after eleven years as a priest. "But I finally got my parents to accept what to them was almost like death-that their dear, darling son was no longer a priest...
...faculty members may continue teaching, the trustees decreed, as long as they "agree to abstain for the period of the inquiry from any activities which are inconsistent with the pronouncements of the ordinary teaching authority established in the church-above all, that of the Holy Father." Teachers "unprepared to accept these conditions" will, in effect, be placed on suspension during the inquiry...
After almost an hour of such persuasion, Dr. Pone got Mitchell to open the door a crack and accept a bottle of milk for the child. The psychology was working. Soon, Mitchell meekly opened the door of his cubicle, put his pistol in Pone's hand and emerged with the unharmed child in his arms...