Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Donnell said that he did not want to state his position on the sales tax until the state legislature makes its decision. "But I accept the fact that the monies are needed and I would accept the sales tax," he said...
...battle in the South represents only the latest phase of a twenty-year struggle for national independence. Should the U.S. decide to double or triple its commitment of troops, Hanoi would very likely send considerably larger detachments of its 450,000-man army into the South rather than accept defeat...
...Communists will augment anti-war sentiment in this country which, in turn, will reinforce Hanoi's belief that we will soon abandon our efforts. This vicious circle, coupled with mounting diplomatic pressure from the neutral countries to end the war, will very likely induce the American people to accept disengagement after years of enormous waste...
...pretty obvious that some fellows at Harvard just accept these classifications," Beecher says. "They say 'that's the way it goes' and don't appeal. They're either resigned or just ignorant of their rights. Or they may be involved at the time and say 'I'll take care of it in a few days'. But you can't take care of it in a few days. You have only ten days from the time they mail...
...crisis]. Henry Kissinger observed to Bundy that it was wrong "to have refusal to negotiate become a test of firmness.... Firmness should be related to the substance of our negotiating position. It should not...be proved by seeming to shy away from a diplomatic confrontation." If Khrushchev would not accept a reasonable proposal, this, in Kissinger's view, was an argument for rather than against our taking the initiative. Any other course would see us "jockeyed into a position of refusing diplomatic solutions," and, when we finally agreed to discussion, as we inevitably must, it would seem an American defeat...