Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel so much better about myself," declared Mary Elizabeth, 21, explaining her starry-eyed dissent, which is echoed by her twin brother Tim's adamant refusal to accept either a student deferment or the draft. Uppermost in prompting her decision to renounce martial ways is her intense Roman Catholic faith; her horror of war was reinforced by the sight of Marines in boot camp at Parris Island, S.C., and "the lost look in their eyes...
North Viet Nam's reply came through a most unorthodox channel: a Tass dispatch from Hanoi saying that Washington's reluctance to accept Pnompenh "cannot but cause wonder, because the U.S. has repeatedly expressed willingness to send its representatives to any point on the globe." Tass added that the North Vietnamese would nonetheless be willing to consider Warsaw as an alternative. Hours later, Hanoi confirmed its choice of the Polish capital in a formal note delivered to U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan in Vientiane, where there have been as many as nine exchanges between American and North Vietnamese diplomats...
...case will adequately represent the general cause and that his interests clearly parallel those of the entire class. Eisen's case was the first major Court of Appeals test of the new rules, and the Second Circuit held that the district judge erred in refusing to accept Eisen's suit as a class action. In so doing, the court emphasized that the rules should be interpreted as liberally as possible. If the cause of action is apparently valid, said the court, an effort should be made to avoid throwing out the suit on narrow, technical grounds...
Leaders of the Draft Union dismiss these hopes as foolish. They cite the recent callup of 60,000 reservists, the continued bombing 225 miles north of the Demilitarized Zone, and the President's refusal to accept Hanoi's proposed sites for peace talks. But whether or not the chance for peace is real, it has drawn people away from the Draft Union. Recent meetings have been badly attended, and most of those coming are the familiar SDS faces...
...these people who say you've got to accept the world as it is. I don't. I object to the world as it is. But I do think you've got to begin with the world as it is. And that's a very different sort of a thing...