Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...followers must not expect our leaders to be infallible; so why does L.B.J. consider it necessary to convince the American public that Big Daddy has all the answers? Is the President correct in his assumption that Americans aren't mature enough to accept the truth? Do we as responsible citizens want to hide behind ignorance, so that, if future historians condemn our stand in Viet Nam, we can say we didn't know...
...Council voted at the meeting not to accept the constitution in its present form because of "internal inconsistencies...
Under Chalmers' plan, discussed Wednesday by the Committee on Educational Policy, an undergraduate could take a special plan of study to his Master or Allston Burr Senior Tutor who would find out whether any department would waive normal concentration requirements and accept the student...
...never given much credence to the theory that a conspiracy was behind John F. Kennedy's assassination is John P. Roche, former Brandeis dean, ex-national chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, and currently Lyndon Johnson's "intellectual-in-residence." For the benefit of those who accept the theory, he cites Roche's law: "Those who can conspire haven't got the time; those who do conspire haven't got the talent." Last week, in a letter to the London Times Literary Supplement congratulating Oxford Don John Sparrow for his incisive, 18,000-word...
...were surprised only to find that he has now been elevated to the rank of "Asian scholar"--at least in the eyes of the New York Times. The case of Professor Reischauer, however, troubles us more deeply. It is true that the statement warns that not all its signers accept all its provisions. Still, Professor Reischauer has lent his considerable prestige to a position that seems to us radically inconsistent with the views that he was endorsing only a few weeks ago as a sponsor of the petition of the Ad Hoc Committee on Vietnam...