Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bubble bath, I'll have to put up with it." JFK's press secretary, Pierre Salinger, might well have concocted such a scheme-and Mrs. Kennedy was determined to "do anything to help" the President's campaign for a second term. Nonetheless, she could never quite accept the fact that for a glamorous couple with charming children, life in the White House was indeed a perennial and public bubble bath...
Back to the Machine. Los Angeles lawyers, to be sure, are still allowed to arrive at trial and ask for continuances, but judges now accept only substantial excuses, such as the unavoidable absence of expert medical witnesses. Continuances are granted in only 20% of civil suits, almost half the previous rate, and it may not pay to get one. Lawyers who are not ready must report back to the computer, and wait as long as three months for another trial. By contrast, the court stresses the constitutional right to speedy trial in criminal cases by guaranteeing that any defendant...
Most Americans willingly accept the notion that physical fitness is valuable for just about everyone. Now, Stanford University Drs. Jose Montero and Kenneth Smyth have the audacity to wonder if it is such a good thing...
...churches, Mesthene said, will have to accept the feeling of confidence man gets from his new-found mastery of nature. "To see a sense of failure as a condition of religious experience is a historical relic dating from a time when an indifferent nature and a hostile world so over-whelmed men that they gave up thought for consolation...
...Adams campaign can claim one major accomplishment. It has forced Collins and Peabody to accept Vietnam as the most important issue. Probably Collins's attempts to avoid outright support for the Administration line are traceable to the Adams candidacy. Peabody, however, continues to parrot each morning's White House press release...