Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Lester Maddox refused to serve Negroes his fried chicken, he makes no bones about soliciting their patronage at the polls. A noisy racist who shuttered his Atlanta Pickrick Restaurant in 1964 rather than accept an integrated clientele, Maddox won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in an upset runoff victory over former Governor Ellis Arnall, a racial moderate. Republicans thought that Maddox would be the less formidable candidate against their man, Congressman Howard ("Bo") Callaway...
...said the U.S. must realize it no longer faces a single, centralized enemy in the Soviet Union. It must also accept that its economic and military aid can not make stable, prosperous democracies of all the developing nations--Social politics are too complex for a uniform policy to be effective...
...feeling of those running the program is that officials will be more likely to accept an invitation to the Institute if they do not expect to be pushed before a battery of microphones and an audience of thousands. There is nothing in McNamara's acceptance that obligates him to deliver a major speech...
...second, to be presented by Committeemen Francis Duchay, assistant dean of the Ed School, would have the committee accept any speaker for Rindge for whom Watson claims there is no adequate Harvard space...
...current Florida law, said Faircloth, the information provided by all these gadgets is hearsay evidence and is therefore inadmissible. To restore electronic enforcement, Faircloth urged the state legislature to legalize such information by classifying it as prima-facie evidence. If the legislature agrees, Florida courts will be able to accept the evidence as conclusive whenever the defendant fails to rebut...