Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many students according to Beecher, accept their 1-A classification with a shrug of resignation even though they completely fit the requirements for 2-S. This is particularly chilling in light of the report's revelation that some local boards are sending 1-A classification to all their students in order to determine who is 2-S on the basis of the expected appeals...
...President willing to accept retired General James Gavin's theory that U.S. troops should pull back to a series of coastal enclaves. This notion is chiefly supported by Pundit Walter Lippmann, former Korean War Commanding General Matthew Ridgway, who has long argued against committing U.S. troops to the Asian
...suggest that we blindly and meekly accept Government's growing involvement in the day-to-day conduct of business," explained Harper. "Rather, I propose that we be realistic about Government's role; that by aggressive action we make our views known and make sure these views influence the action of the Government." In other words, rather than sitting back and complaining about Big Government, the business community as a whole and businessmen as individuals ought to try to be as politically active and influential as, say, Big Labor...
Admission of Communist China to the United Nations is the only way for her "to grow and eventually accept restraints on her revolutionary ardor," John K. Fairbank '29, Francis Lee Illggisson Professor of History, says in an article in the current issue of the New York Review of Books...
...Cambridge has only a railroad alignment as an alternative to the Brookline Elm St. alignment, the DPW will be in a relatively stronger position to either reject it on the basis of the FBPR's previously stated unwillingness to accept [it]....or simply send it along to Washington to have the FBPR reject...