Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam in 1951 (then Indo-China):We must learn how to suffer and not let go of Asia. We must stay in Korea and stay in Indo-China. It is possible to leave but these are solutions of defeat. For my part, I do not accept them...
...tempered the judgments of both groups, leading the first to a somewhat greater respect for certain American qualities and the second to a greater sym- pathy for Colombians (and other non-Americans). Many had come to a kind of patience, a new attitude toward time. They had come to accept the fact that the Peace Corps had been in Colombia for three years and the per capita income was down and the birthrate was up (neither the fault of the Volunteers). As suggested above, many had discovered capacities and interests in themselves that they had not known they possessed. From...
Wald concluded a 35-minute lecture and then announced that he and his family would leave for Stockholm Tuesday evening to accept his Nobel Prize in medicine. He then asked for "six beautiful girls" to help distribute wine and fresh bread "baked by two wonderful Greek ladies" to celebrate the occasion...
...strongest argument against RUS is that it will not work at the present time. The College Council will probably not accept a student government which proposes to make its own rules. And it will definitely not allow student representation on the Council...
...bizarre concreteness of this alien reality seduces us to accept the fantasy. The convincing stylistic precision restrains the unreal reality from becoming nonsense. In the next paragraph we become involved in the magician who works to dream a man and "insert him into reality" and who later learns that he himself is "a mere appearance, dreamt by another." Borges has taken us from reality to illusion without our awareness of the change...