Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radhakrishnan arrived at this plan independently. If so, it strengthens the case for the plan in that two independent sources-one Eastern and one Western-reviewing the same facts, came to the same conclusions. Dr. Radhakrishnan told me that Russia, Czechoslovakia, Japan and the U.S. expressed their willingness to accept the plan. China, characteristically, was not willing...
...week showed that 77% of the population supports Pacheco's actions, and he is showing no signs of letting up. "Our goals must be containment of expenses, austerity by everybody," he says. "The self-immolation of a society because of passivity is a philosophy that we will never accept. I'm in the ring and I'm fighting as hard...
...improper arm bands on U.N. guards. The U.N. has admitted 93 violations and charged North Korea with 6,313. Pyongyang has admitted only two, the last one in 1953. It is so adamant about not taking blame for the increased tensions along the DMZ that it refuses to accept the bodies of slain North Korean soldiers, insisting that they are South Koreans deliberately disguised in Communist uniforms...
...Gamble. Jurors are not expected to buck directed verdicts. But in days gone by, they took more of a risk than did Solana. In 16th century England, the remote ancestor of today's directed verdict was called a writ of attaint; under it a judge could refuse to accept any jury verdict he did not like, no matter what the evidence. A new trial was then held, with a larger jury. If the new jury agreed with the judge, the original jurors could '"themselves be imprisoned and their wives and children thrust out of doors." That highhanded custom...
...members of the British Cabinet, including Churchill, then Home Secretary. It was also attended by several bill collectors, who were seated by themselves in a downstairs parlor. Frewen had, however, paid cash for his daughter's wedding gown. The seamstress who delivered it that morning had refused to accept a check...