Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Washington's recent effort to seal the Mexican border against marijuana was only the latest indication of the Government's determination to stamp out grass. But even the Administration's most determined gangbuster, Attorney General John Mitchell, cannot accept the anomaly whereby a second conviction for selling marijuana carries four times the potential maximum penalty as manslaughter or some types of sabotage. Nor can Mitchell's legal mind easily tolerate a law that threatens the same punishment to a casual user of marijuana as it does to a wholesale pot peddler. After some initial hesitation...
...nation finds it easy to accept the idea that it owes most of what it has, including its continued existence, to the fighting men of another nation, particularly when those men often show hostility rather than sympathy. G.I.s in the field frequently find it impossible to distinguish between "bad" and "good" Vietnamese; as a result, they often callously mistreat all of them. Few American soldiers are in Viet Nam because they want to be, and many take out their resentments on their not-so-friendly hosts. "They're all gooks," says a sergeant at Tay Ninh, using the derogatory...
...dreamed its name would be Pop, its inspiration advertising and comic strips. To many, the antidote was distinctly more unpleasant than the malady. But there were moments of high humor and certainly social awareness. A rich, fat and powerful consumer society was rich, fat and powerful enough to accept its own image, no matter how ugly it turned out to be. Perhaps because the image was so powerful, the movement was unusually short-lived. A scant decade after its birth, Geldzahler observes: "It seems today that Pop art was an episode. In fact, just about everything new and original...
...Administration's determination to persevere with its policies of severely tight money, despite political pressures to relax. Burns has a reputation for doggedness in following just such anti-inflationary policies. Nixon himself, in a radio speech on inflation last week, said that the nation will have to accept some more "bitter medicine," and counseled consumers and businessmen to slow their spending...
...willingness to switch from easy-to tight-money policies and back again as he thought the situation required. He cooperated with the expansionist policies of President Kennedy when the nation's economic problem was sluggish growth and persistent unemployment. In late 1965, however, he refused to accept Lyndon Johnson's line that the U.S. could escalate the Viet Nam war, keep taxes and interest rates down and still avoid inflation; the Federal Reserve tightened credit, to L.B.J.'s displeasure...