Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made people more willing to come to the negotiating table?" Nowhere, said Taylor. "We have never had a situation like this," he observed. "You recall in World War II it was fight to the end or be destroyed, and many people preferred to be destroyed rather than to accept unconditional surrender. Here we are not doing that at all. We are constantly pointing out the better life that awaits the North if they will end their aggression against the South. We are deliberately keeping a golden bridge open behind them, so they are never in the trapped position that...
...they achieved no other goal, the Senate hearings confirmed President Johnson's belief that nothing short of a premature pullout from Viet Nam will pacify the pacifiers. The hard-core critics of his foreign policy, concluded a White House aide, "are insatiable. They will not accept the legal argument, the political argument, the moral argument or the military argument. They want out." And that, Lyndon Johnson maintains, is the one argument he will not buy at any price. Last week, more determinedly than ever, he said it again...
...possible compromise would be to stagger the terms so that half the House would be elected with the President, half in off-year elections. However, Katzenbach made clear that the Administration would not accept this solution, fearing that it might split each party in the House into two rump groups, one a "presidential" party, the other an "off-year" faction free to ignore its own "presidential banner and platform." Said he: "A cure, to be a cure, cannot be worse than the malady...
...will be needed to help the subcontinent's masses fend off starvation. Indians should also be educated to eat new foods, of course, but the education must be gradual. The problem is not just one of stubbornness: doctors know that a hunger-weakened stomach often simply refuses to accept unfamiliar food...
Then came Hitler's suicide in the Berlin bunker. Keitel was baffled. He had followed Hitler's every order in the naive belief that the Führer would accept responsibility for his actions. While more cynical generals like Gotthard Heinrici, commander of the Vistula Army Group, beat a retreat toward the American lines, Keitel went back to Berlin to sign the surrender document that he had never believed would be written. All around him the other evil men of Nazidom were taking the easy way out: Hitler was followed in suicide by Himmler, Goebbels and Goring...