Word: accept
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...driveways. These are obviously the home sof the wealthy. But most of the houses in the city and on the hills around are well kept. Both by European and Israeli standards Nablus is a bustling, hard working, largely middle class town. Its inhabitants are no more likely to willingly accept any foreign occupation or loss of autonomy than the inhabitants of Haifa would be. They are just as proud of their achievements and their culture as the Israelis are. Perhaps they are more proud: as Palestinians they feel superior to other Arabs, particularly to those of Trans-Jordan, with whom...
...does not? Obviously, what has been stopped may be started again, perhaps with greater intensity. It is difficult to see how Ho could accept that prospect with equanimity, in view of the destruction that has already been wrought. The Administration, in fact, is convinced that U.S. airpower has mauled the enemy far more cruelly than has been suggested. Around Khe Sanh, eight-jet B-52s and dartlike fighter-bombers have cratered the nearby hills with 80,000 tons of bombs in the past two months-more than was dropped on Japan during the entire four years of World...
...shall not seek and I will not^accept the nomination of my party. . . ." Thus on nationwide television this week, almost as a throwaway line, in one of the most painful speeches that he has ever delivered to the American people, did the 36th President of the U.S. declare his intention to bow out of the ] presidential race. Lyndon Johnson's decision to retire from office, coming as a surprise climax to a surprise speech on Vietnam, gave the President's newly-stated conditions for ending the war the kind of impact that his own intended departure from...
...letter mailed to the winners today the General Scholarship Committee said that it would "reserve funds for a winner who is unable to accept the award in direct consequence of Selective Service Regulations." Both going to jail and volunteering for the draft will be considered direct consequences, according to Peter K. Gunness '57, Secretary to the General Fellowship Committee...
...very familiar with the doctrine that there are good laws and bad laws, and that a man is bound to disobey bad laws. I do not accept that doctrine in the United States," he said, because legal channels for change remain open to all Americans...