Word: accept
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...Federation does succeed in quadrupling its membership and in achieving some kind of tolerably representative status, the implications of its "adversary" stance are grave. One can refuse to sign a petition, one can even refuse to accept any salary increment resulting from the unlikely success of such a petition, but one cannot easily halt the trend towards an industrial-type confrontation. Harvard becomes a factory, Teaching Fellows become machine operators, the undergraduates become sausages and the administration the evil board of directors. My great-great-grandfather, who organized the miners on the Radstock coalfield, must be turning in his grave...
...this than by trying to bring people together, to accommodate their points of view, to try to arrive at sense, to try to settle their problems by principles of freedom. I, myself, do not want to live under conditions that are not free conditions. I don't accept the concept that that is the type of life that I am ready to lead. Therefore I think the basic principle that is here which we are struggling with--a very difficult principle--is how to discharge our responsibilities in the world as a world power and permit people, as I said...
...National Student Association revealed late yesterday that it has been subsidized since the early 1950's by the Central Intelligence Agency. NSA president Eugene Groves said that the group has been struggling for two years to break the "covert relationship" and would no longer accept CIA money. The CIA first offered the money, he said, because it wanted to counter Communist-sponsored youth activities...
...thus appeared to challenge the government to name the kind of solution it would be prepared to see result from negotiations - a pronouncement which no bargainer could be expected to make. But the letter could also be interpreted as calling on the President merely to affirm that he would accept a political solution based on something less than military defeat of the enemy...
...meeting with Rusk the following day strengthened the hand of those students in the group who had argued for a more critical tone. The interview convinced them all, Robert Powell, president of the University of North Carolina student body, said shortly afterward, that "the only way we will accept [peace] is through complete surrender of the goals and /or aims of the other side...