Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telegram also urged those men subject to the draft to accept the call or claim deferment as conscientious objectors, or be willing to accept the legal consequences of their refusal to serve...
...trust Mrs. Lessinger will accept my apologies for all the inconvenience caused her. John G. Morrill General Manager Harvard Co-operative Society
...Boris Pasternak into "voluntarily" refusing the prize. Sholokhov himself had got in some of the licks, denouncing the Swedes as "unobjective" and belittling the author of Doctor Zhivago as a "hermit crab." Now that the Academy had demonstrated its objectivity to his satisfaction, Sholokhov smiled and announced: "I gratefully accept the Nobel Prize...
...Solicitor General is often judged less by his Supreme Court victories than by his success in getting federal agencies to accept lower-court decisions. In 1964 Archibald Cox, Marshall's predecessor, who plans to resume teaching labor law at Harvard, held off 74% of the requests tor appeals from decisions against the Government in U.S. district courts Of 385 potential appeals to the Supreme Court, he approved only 43. Such selectivity pays off: the Supreme Court now accepts about 66% of the Government's petition compared with less than 10% of those of private lawyers...
...first complaint about this weekend's demonstrators is that they are "draft dodgers." It is unfair to level this criticism at all the demonstrators, just as it would be naive to assume that those who did not march would cheerfully accept a military future. It is true that several demonstrators may have breached specific draft laws. One protestor publicly burned his draft card, and it has been alleged (and denied) that Berkeley Students for a Democratic Society circulated literature urging illegal methods of draft evasion. For these crimes there are stiff penalties, and objectors who resort to civil disobedience must...