Word: accept
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...King's chief lieutenants for more than a decade, Abernathy has staked out a claim as custodian of the dream. Whether that claim will go unchallenged remains to be seen. Far less cerebral than his predecessor, he has shown an unhappy tendency to make inept remarks and to accept bad advice from ultramilitant S.C.L.C. officials whom King managed to keep in line...
...York writer, and Marcus Raskin, 33, a former White House disarmament aide, had delivered a briefcase filled with 356 draft cards to the Justice Department. McDonough testified that Raskin declared, "These cards are evidence of a violation of a federal law, and it is your duty to accept them." Film shot by a Boston TV crew of the draft-card-burning ceremony showed the fifth defendant, Michael Ferber, 23, a Harvard graduate student, urging his audience "to make it difficult and politically dangerous for the government to prosecute...
...talker. The talk is hushed as chanting begins in the rear of the theater. With measured tread, the Sacred College advances down the two long aisles in a swirl of scarlet and incense. As the cardinals reach the stage, they pause before the bishop and the priest: "Wilt thou accept pontificality?" Rolfe turns to kneel to his bishop, so unexpectedly chosen, only to find that the prelate is already kneeling to him. "Wilt thou accept pontificality?" The bishop whispers: "The answer is 'Volo' or 'Nolo.' " For an instant, terrified gratification flashes across Rolfe's face...
...adopted by a number of other Protestant and even Catholic thinkers. In the Roman Catholic Church -which requires parents to have their children baptized as soon as possible-several progressive theologians have seriously suggested that the ceremony be postponed until puberty, when a youth presumably is mature enough to accept or reject his faith. Perhaps the most formidable challenge to infant baptism was made recently by Switzerland's venerable Karl Earth, in Part 4 of Volume IV of his ever expanding masterwork, Church Dogmatics. In his latest book, Barth argues that there is no Biblical basis for infant baptism...
...economic rationale for the conservative position is sound, once you accept the postulates of free competition as blithely as Milton Friedman does. He argued in National Review last year that...