Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fall, however, there was an obvious receptiveness to ideas coming from students. The Harvard Under-Policy Committee, the two organs of student "government" at the College, made important proposals--and had them accepted (a major change in parietals came from the HUC, and the HPC asked that students be allowed to take a free fifth course on a pass-fail basis; this is still in the works). When Phillips Brooks House Association indicated it was in financial trouble, Monro, as head of the Faculty committee for PBHA, helped shape a proposal for aid from the Faculty of Art sand Sciences...
...privileged position for its statements. Despite the fact that all its actions are widely defended in the mass media, and any government spokesman has any platform he desires, it still refuses to submit its policy to critical scrutiny in public debate. For example, government representatives have consistently refused to accept invitations to appear at teach-ins for the last year refusal to debate in the face of widespread demand...
...Russian leadership has several reasons to back some sort of negotiated settlement in Vietnam and further a détente with the U.S. It should be able to accept, as it did in Laos, a relatively stable non-aligned government in the South; it has never been very loud in supporting demands that all of Vietnam be reunified by force under Ho Chi Minh...
...They Accept The Invitation...
Aside from these mechanical slip-ups, however, the second letter was far less clearly and forcefully written than the first. Long and rambling, it questioned the government's willingness to accept genuine negotiations that would inevitably produce something considerably short of victory. "We do not know what kind of solution other than 'military' our own government feels it could accept," the letter said...