Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that I'm here to be cool or to meet people or to meet girls (as distinct from people) or to get out of crew or to be arrested. Of course the possibility exists that I am here to precipitate some change at the University. I am willing to accept the latter as true, or, rather, I am willing, even anxious, not to think about it any more. If you think too much on the second tier (think about why you are thinking what you think) you can be paralyzed...
...constitution is far from a blanket approval of RUS demands. While the Council was at last willing to grant students impressive legislative power, it was still not ready to accept permanent student representation on the Council. More significantly, however, the Council did not force RUS to compromise any of its demands. When an impending deadlock over Council representation became evident, the two parties wisely decided to set up a working government by agreeing on the points they could agree on and leaving the rest for future negotiation...
...agreed on the things we could agree on," Miss Batts said last night. "We couldn't agree on permanent Council membership. So we decided to accept a temporary, informal clause. We will keep working for permanent representation. Meanwhile, we can go to the Council meetings as invited delegates and try to convince them to accept our requests...
...book's main character, to drain the life from him. Piet is, supposedly, the scapegoat of the couples. And it is the group's judgment that Piet was used by Foxy in order to discard her cold-fish husband. But to see him as a scapegoat is to accept him as will less--and so the author seems to have viewed...
...School effort will probably depend on slow laborious work at building personal alliances with community groups. On their part, Roxbury leaders will have to be prepared to accept the School's decision to keep its channels open with the School Department. They will also have to be ready for some mistakes and ready to perceive them as personal errors, not malicious racial slurs on the Ed School's part. While they should not be led to expect too much, they cannot be disappointed if results don't appear overnight...