Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the Administration's repeated, unequivocal insistence that it will not accept North Viet Nam's give-up-and-get-out terms for calling off the Vietnamese war, Washington continues to receive a stream of meretricious reports that Hanoi has decided to negotiate in good faith. Last week, at a time that could hardly have been better calculated to arouse Americans' hopes of peace and good will, Ho Chi Minh's latest and least likely offer landed on the world's front pages...
...turned out, Hanoi was not giving an inch in its four hard-line preconditions-which include full U.S. acceptance of the Viet Cong's program for the communization of South Viet Nam. The only difference this time was that the Communists tried the new gambit of describing their demands as being "in reality the explanation" of the 1954 Geneva accord that divided Viet Nam. Since the Viet Cong had not even existed as an organized military and political force until 1960, it was difficult to accept such reasoning...
With fanfares from silver trumpets, the 1965 Nobel Prize winners stepped forward to accept the awards from Sweden's King Gustav VI Adolf in Stockholm's Concert Hall. Gathering afterward to compare their $56,400 notes were Harvard University's Dr. Robert Burns Woodward, 48, with the prize for chemistry; Harvard's Dr. Julian Schwinger, 47, and Dr. Richard P. Feynman, 47, of the California Institute of Technology, who share the physics prize with Tokyo's Dr. Shin-ichiro Tomonaga, 59; Francois Jacob, 45, Andre Lwoff, 63, and Jacques Monod, 55, sharing the prize...
...Million Loot'; and on the same page in the item on Billy Graham, 'Asks Audience to Give L.B.J. Standing Ovation' was printed 'Asks Audience to Give L.B.J. Standing Nation.' We sincerely regret these misspellings and ask our readers to accept our sincere apologies...
...Sweden it is considered bad form to give liquor-the most popular gift in the rest of Europe. The Germans prefer gifts that can be used over and over, do not like conspicuous firm names or advertising messages. Very few firms in Europe forbid their employees to accept gifts...