Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announcement came as a shock to reporters. "Does that include being drafted?" asked a newsman. "Including being drafted," said Scranton. And to prove that he meant to be as unshakable as William Tecumseh Sherman ("If nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve"), Scranton added, "I am not going to run for Congress this year-or ever. I am not going to run for the U.S. Senate in 1968-or ever. I am not going to run for the presidency in 1968-or ever...
...President Sukarno, who has lost most of his former power but still holds out against peace with his old enemy. Besides, Malik explained, "our people have been led to crush Malaysia for the past three years by the former regime. It takes time for us to prepare them to accept the new situation...
...fate of some 27,000 French troops now stationed in West Germany under NATO. Both Bonn and Paris, for their own reasons, would like the French to stay. But if France is not in NATO, how can the troops' presence be justified? The Germans will not accept any solution that smacks of renewed occupation, and France will not accept any status that implies renewed integration. The solution may be that the French will simply stay on "provisionally"-meaning indefinitely...
...energetic, aggressive lay and clerical staff members, by ardently siding with Mississippi's Negro poor, tended to set them against other segments of society rather than reconcile the factions. Laudably, the Ministry helped set up preschool training centers under Project Head Start, badgered reluctant state officials to accept federal anti-poverty funds, worked with secular civil rights organizations to register Negro voters. Ministry leaders also actively organized a bitter and so far unsuccessful strike against cotton plantations, and encouraged the dramatic squatters' invasion of the Greenville Air Force Base by local Negroes last winter...
...Boston School Committee refused Thursday to accept any of eight racial redistricting proposals drawn by the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies...