Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evil about us is not a call to retribution but to greatness. Are we not to be called atheists when we believe and act upon the belief that there are gulfs between "right" men and "wrong" men so great that no bridge can be thrown across them? Must we accept war as the price of human dignity and freedom...
...cult of personality," even coexistence with the U.S.-up to a point. As one U.S. Castrologist says, "Castro will never become the apostle of peaceful coexistence. Yet it does seem clear that he is subject to Soviet pressure and has no choice other than to accept it." The refugees and Che Guevara are two sources of acute embarrassment to Castro, and therefore to Moscow...
...ransom feeler, as he did with the Bay of Pigs prisoners, or possibly laying a trap to lure anti-Castro Cubans into exposing themselves. The U.S. called the offer "vague and ambiguous," said that Castro ought to use diplomatic channels for his offer, then later announced that it would accept any and all refugees if Castro was really serious about it. President Johnson even indicated that he would ask Congress for a $12.6 million appropriation to help get the program underway...
...Radcliffe. "The word Radcliffe stuck in my mind as a place, a real place," Miss Travers said. She asked if Whitman Hall, where she will live, was named after the poet. When she was told it was named after Sarah Whitman, she replied, "After Sarah and Walt. I accept history, but I can do with it what I want...
...Lean Greeley, a Unitarian observer at Vatican II, "is perhaps the greatest day of the council." By an overwhelming vote of 1,997 to 224, Catholic bishops last week approved in principle the text of their declaration on religious liberty. Two days later, the bishops also voted to accept in principle the text of Schema 13, "The Church in the Modern World" - although it, unlike the religious liberty declaration, still faces the prospect of drastic revision...