Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never received a genuine peace feeler from Hanoi, Kennedy said that unless he saw all the pertinent communications he could not make such an announcement. "I'm telling you that you can," said Johnson. Bobby, implying that the President was not to be trusted, refused to accept that assurance...
...Democratic nomination for the seat he has already won twelve times-even though, as seemed likely, the House might continue to deny it to him. Then James Meredith, 33, the moody loner of the civil rights movement who is now a Columbia law student, announced that he would accept Manhattan Republican Chairman Vincent Albano's invitation to oppose Powell...
...lack of science, the absence of intellectual equipment or desire to accept change that proved so disastrous when, in the 19th century, the West broke through the Great Wall of Chinese isolation. The Mandarins, that elite corps of scholar-officials who had so long governed under the Emperors-in the words of one Western scholar, as "managers before their time"-finally lost their power to manage. Always opposed to specialization, in the belief that the really wise man can know and do everything, they were unable and unwilling to cope with modern knowledge. Suddenly, the old formulas no longer worked...
...Glimp submitted he can't really explain; it must have been more than Glimp's being rural and mid-Western, though that was something Harvard wanted. For whatever reason, he put the folder aside and read it again--and again. Then, with some misgivings, he recommended that the College accept the man who would 20 years later succeed him as its Dean...
...time for action is now--not sometime this side of the indefinite future when HUAC arouses itself and starts Red-baiting the nation's students again. There is a sad chance that Harvard could become involved in a future HUAC imbroglio. Were Pusey to accept the committee's recommendations, he might be able to make HUAC finally realize that it cannot tamper with the academic freedom of campus student groups whenever it decides to appease the rightist fringe...