Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daily Mail [March 1]. My heart goes out with gratitude to those American families whose sons are holding back the Red tide in Southeast Asia-and with shame for the paltry attitude taken by many in Britain and the Western world who have been only too glad to accept American assistance in their own hour of need...
...strike came close to settlement last month when the publishers offered the Teamsters a $30-a-week raise over three years. Teamster International Vice President Robert Holmes recommended that the locals accept it. The Teamsters at the Free Press did, but the more militant members at the News turned it down. Now both sets of strikers are as mad at each other as they are at the publishers...
Stain of Shamateurism. The Killy case evoked memories of Jim Thorpe, who won the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics, then was forced to give back his medals because he had once accepted a few dollars to play semipro baseball. And it illustrated how deeply the hypocrisy of "shamateurism" stains the fabric of sport. If Killy did accept money for a story, is he any less an amateur than the tennis star who collects under-the-table payments from promoters? Or the basketball ace who gets discounts from the" stores and restaurants in his college town? And how about...
...emphasized that governments should always try to win the peoples approval and support for their actions, primarily by preparing them to accept strong government policies for freedom. Otherwise, he said, the traditional American distrust of government may be replaced by a clamor for stronger tactics in time of crisis...
Germans of 40 and older, who remember how difficult it was to escape the taint of at least some minor involvement with the Nazi regime, will probably accept Lübke's explanation of his wartime activities. But the younger Germans, who see in him the failure of the older generation to stand up to the Nazis, are unlikely to be very understanding. These days, they are not very interested in explanations...