Word: accept
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Every year, a few high school stars in the Buffalo area accept major league offers. Too many of them, according to Peters, return home after two or three futile weeks in the minor leagues. After college, he believes that he can begin in a much higher minor league than he could...
...Sporting News, a national weekly emphasizing baseball, placed Peters on its national "Top Ten Quality List." This category includes athletes who might not accept major league offers. Only one other pitcher besides Peters was on the list...
...occasion without precedent and another gauge of the new economic winds bestirring the Soviet Union. There, in the Dollar Bar (so called because it will accept only dollars and other hard currencies) of Moscow's National Hotel were 80 Russians listening to a presentation by a group of American businessmen. The Russians wanted to know how to sell products in hard-currency countries. The Americans knew what to advise: advertise...
...then present it for the approval of both the blacks and Rhodesia's minority of 220,000 whites. Moreover, said Wilson, Britain would expect to have a veto over the Royal Commission's work. Even then, Wilson added, "the British government cannot guarantee that it will accept the report...
...disputing that the vast majority of Friends shared Morrison's misgiving about the Viet Nam war, or any other war. Along with the Brethren movement and the Mennonites, the Friends have been the most ardent spokesmen for the pacifist movement within Christianity, calling upon men to accept literally God's commandment: "Thou shalt not kill...