Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deadline on January 10th, have been told by officials at the GSAS that their requests for aid will not be considered. Although most of the late applications were filed within 24 hours of the cut-off time--many within minutes of the deadline--the GSAS has flatly refused to accept late applications. As a result, several students may be forced to leave school this term...
...order to protect Western Europe and ourselves from the "social acid" of Communism. After 1962, the metabolism of the Cold War changed: for both the U.S. and the USSR, international politics became gradually secularized. The metaphysical became negotiable, the abhorrent understandable, to the extent that we could tacitly accept the Cuban revolution while the Russians could look on without much fuss as we armed West Germany with nuclear weapons...
...almost impossible to be both a political citizen and a moral man," he said. "But Spain has found the worse solution--to suppress both. To renounce politics is to accept the Establishment and become a passive citizen. To renounce ethics is to lose respect for one's own human dignity. Somehow we must reassert these things together...
...Africans a "blocking third" in the legislature and to assure them of increasing participation in the government, leading to majority rule. An international treaty imposing strict sanctions and control would insure against any attempts by whites to subvert the constitution. This policy implies faith in the Rhodesians' willingness to accept the principle of majority rule, and to abide by the terms of the settlement...
...ended in a retreat by both sides, Harmel decided to quit before the fighting even began, and submitted his resignation to King Baudouin. That pleased the doctors, who declared that they would not strike if the government resigned. But at week's end the King refused to accept Premier Harmel's resignation, and once again the danger of a doctors' strike was imminent...