Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What I'm saying," he declared, "is that at a negotiating table, if you're really looking for a political settlement, you really have to make some concessions." McCarthy, by contrast, said that Dzu's imprisonment "signifies Saigon's complete unwillingness to discuss, let alone accept, the only reasonable terms on which the war is likely to be settled...
...addition to a certain amount of racism, some whites retain other old attitudes towards the blacks. For example, some summer school women apparently accept certain ideas about the sexuality of black men. "White girls seem to be fascinated by black men. It is very evident here," said Barbara Miles...
...supported by only fragmentary data on the successes or failures of the students they are supposed to help. When the act was passed, some local districts denounced it as a prelude to a Federal takeover of education. Local school districts have now abdicated their zealously guarded sovereignty enough to accept the $3 billion in aid under Title I, but few distircts appear to be going out of their way to help the USOE, or even state education departments, find out exactly how much good that aid has done...
...Bride Was Willing. Gallaher was inclined to accept the offer. "Independence is sweet," said Chairman Mark Norman. "But there comes a time when matrimony is attractive too." Cazenove, which had handled the sale of Imperial's stock in Gallaher (at $2.40 a share) knew just where to find the necessary shares (at $4.20). In one amazing hour of purchases, 12.2 million shares worth $51 million were accumulated in American's behalf...
...that the author denies morality, motherhood, love, sex, and personality through women; it is not that he cannot see purposefulness, friendship, dignity and honor in his men. It is that we must accept his insistence on the lonely Enderby, dedicated to poetry because there is nothing else he can be dedicated to, as our only point of reference, as the fixed center of consciousness. Looking with Enderby's eyes we are forced to abandon the old philosophical principle of the duality of good and evil. We find a new duality, an immediate polarity between body -- including brain -- and non-body...