Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Churches' Influence on Secular Society" [April 21] you espouse the curious dichotomy of separation of church and state while at the same time you accept taxpayers' aids to religion...
...right to criticize public officials in print, in speech and in the streets is now firmly rooted throughout U.S. law. The draft cannot be used to conscript critics; a conscientious objector can rely on any God he chooses. The civil rights movement has taught Americans to accept nonviolent demonstrations in pursuit of constitutional rights. The rejection of McCarthyism, the civilizing of U.S. criminal justice-such milestones have moved America ever closer to its professed ideals. Few today would cheer the jingoism of World War I, when a pacifist was likely to find his house painted yellow. Most would cheer what...
...soccer team, Santos, was in New York when the Harlem invitation came, Pele explained in a TV interview last week in São Paulo. "I learned that this had connotations of the racial struggle in the U.S.," he said, "and I made one condition to accept: I would come only if all the white players on the Santos team were also invited." In a curiously segregationist mood, the hosts refused, and so, said Pelé, "I just thanked them for the thought...
...Ohio, expects to go coed within two years, is leaning toward the creation of a coordinate women's college. So is all-male Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y. Wells College, a selective women's school along the shores of New York's Cayuga Lake, expects to accept male undergraduates within five years, probably in a coordinate men's branch...
...Because I do not want to be known as the pastor of the richest man in the country," Fosdick said. Answered Rockefeller: "Do you think more people will criticize you on account of my wealth than will criticize me on account of your theology?" Fosdick finally agreed to accept a pulpit call, provided Rockefeller would find him a new and larger church building near Columbia University with a congregation open to all Christians...