Word: accept
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Religion is free to evaluate--free to accept or reject on the basis of quality alone. It is truth-seeking. Adherents believe that an earnest, intelligent search yields far more religious truth than the blind acceptance of the tradition of any sect...
...happy to announce that the Ministry confirmed my action. We have made our office available to the committee and have encouraged our individual members who share the purposes and accept the discipline of ARFEP to send statements to the CRIMSON indicating their interest and the nature of the support they shall offer...
...like Castro, everybody else in Cuba is getting dull. Younger Brother Raul, Cuba's armed forces chief, who used to give a pretty noisy speech, now works in the background as quietly as any Russian general. President Osvaldo Dorticos sometimes does not even bother to accept the credentials of new ambassadors, shunting the chore instead to an assistant. As Russification grows, Cuba's bureaucracy is now overlaid by yet another bureaucracy. Two years ago, the P.U.R.S., Cuba's Communist Party, organized a special branch to provide political commissars in the military, factories and national education system...
...that Nazi SS men were often savage sadists, that Jewish survivors of Buchenwald endured incredible torments, and that a bunch of high-ranking political hostages bottled up in a Bavarian castle keep and threatened with execution would try very hard to escape their German jailers. What few will accept is the mawkishly pro-Semitic suspense novel in which Meyer Levin (Compulsion; The Fanatic) fiddles with these familiar themes...
...seem a bit complacent, even bored, because they've survived the struggle for existence. Paul's grandfather has left them alone, seas of screaming girls no longer rumble down railroad platforms after them, platoons of bobbies don't chase them through London any more. The city and its people accept them...