Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indeed, "the West, and especially the U.S., has no choice but to accept the Soviet challenge on the seas." We need only think of what Hitler could have done with Gorshkov's fleet to see the reason. How the history of the world would have been changed. Seapower will ensure us of more than a posthumous footnote in future history...
...announcement loosed a flood of excitement. Conspiracy theories took wing like a fallout of finches. Barry Goldwater I-told-you-so-ed: "Romney was nothing more than a stalking-horse for Rockefeller." Some seers deduced that Rockefeller had stabbed Romney the previous week by admitting that he would accept a draft. Others whispered that it was a twin double cross: Romney quitting early enough to wreck Rockefeller's timetable in retaliation for Rockefeller's supposed duplicity. No one, of course, could substantiate anything, and the speculation was subsiding as the shock wore...
...lively political arena. In the center ring, of course, President Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky continue to maneuver for paramount influence. But the Tet offensive seems to have injected a new sense of urgency, a readiness to ask hard questions and to accept some unpleasant answers, into the Saigon body politic. Many pro-government political leaders, as well as those who oppose the government, are displaying a fresh critical spirit that begins with the realization that the government has to reform and renew itself...
...temporary policy necessary because the Union is so little developed, or it may be calculated to circumvent the legal question by keeping the Union amorphous. The Union now ought to admit that it is not prepared to emerge publicly, or, even better, take a stand that all can accept or reject. A legal stance would be best tactically; if the legality of being affiliated with the Union is in question, most students probably will not take the risk...
What the patients have done is to alienate the world. They've withdrawn from it and they've force dit not to want them around, either. The case-aide must mediate between the patient and the community and get them to accept each other more, without doing fancy intra-psychic work--which only the patient can really do. In therapy you don't cure patients. You open doors and try to let the patient go through if he wants...