Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second of his three William Belden Noble Lectures on "Religion and Politics," McCarthy said that corruption cannot be reduced until the moral level of the entire society is raised, and until we "accept the idea that there is a special obligation attached to holding a public office...
...agree to move from the battlefield to the conference table." Why should they come to the conference table when they have nothing to negotiate? If and when they get tired of fighting, they simply retire behind the 17th parallel. If they can't have victory, they accept nothing-not even defeat. We, on the other hand, will not accept defeat, and apparently refuse to go after victory. The Communist policy of "rule or ruin" and "if we can't win, return to the status quo" has worked well elsewhere, and will probably work in Viet...
...decision to accept the hypothesis was by no means unanimous, and there ensued what has since been described in Author Edward Jay Epstein's book Inquest as the "battle of the adjectives." Some commissioners wanted to say that "compelling'-' evidence supported the single-bullet thesis; others thought "credible" evidence was strong enough, and a compromise was reached with the word "persuasive...
...that it is a form of aggression against someone loved turned inward upon the self, because the self is identified with the loved one. Later, Freud formulated his famed "death instinct," into which suicide fitted neatly as death's triumph over the life instinct. Many psychoanalysts do not accept the death instinct, but most modern thinking swings between versions of Freud's psychodynamics of depression on the one hand and Durkheim's sociological factors on the other...
...meeting at which the whole formula was unveiled turned into a bloody, no-holds-barred battle. The main opponent of the new proposal was Charles Ascheim '66, and the meeting finally adjourned having only decided to give Ascheim a chance to speak with Chapman -- to see if he would accept an elected executive committee...