Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whoever thought the head man of so secretive an outfit would stand up and accept an award for running an airline under "extremely sensitive political conditions"? Yet there was George Doole Jr., Air America's managing director, smiling like a Rotarian and receiving a citation for the line's achievements from Washington's Aero Club at a luncheon in the capital last week. After the luncheon, Doole, a former Pan American Airways pilot, shrugged off newsmen's questions about his company's activities. "One wouldn't know," he said, if any particular contract...
...sentencing council" five years ago. Made up of three judges and three probation officers, the council meets weekly to review every trial judge's forthcoming sentences. Each judge proposes his sentence, and the others suggest increases or decreases or shifts in emphasis. No judge is required to accept any of the advice. But all act together, and they have achieved what they call "uniform philosophy" if not uniform sentences. One result is that Detroit now leads all federal district courts in the use of indeterminate sentences that give well-behaved prisoners an earlier crack at parole. Impressed, district courts...
...Americans would no more accept the old family doctor than they would ride in his horse-and-buggy instead of their automobiles. You ask: "Is the old family doctor dead?" The answer is yes. For this progress the public should be thankful...
...have the money to handle themselves, and hundreds more in which the Federal Government must take the initiative if anything is ever to be done. Though cries are still heard about the freedom-encroaching growth of government-most frequently from the extreme right wing-most Americans have come to accept the fact that big problems require big government. What they are apt to resent is the Federal Government's playing too pervasive and domineering a role in decisions that are better made at the state or local level. On the other hand, Washington is recognizing that many...
...rules in the light of the Second Vatican Council. A majority of the congregations are less than two centuries old, and their constitutions generally reflect the rigid piety of the Council of Trent more than the counsels of Christ. The Brothers of the Christian Schools are constitutionally forbidden to accept girls into their schools or teach in institutions not run by the congregation. They must give absolute obedience to their superiors, and until recently spiritual training in the brotherhoods operated on the principle that rote made right. "They dressed us like women and treated us like little boys," complains Irish...