Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Please accept our heartiest congratulations on a reporting job well done and on putting the Kashmir problem in much clearer perspective...
...waiting for it. And magazines had a great deal to do with making the country ready and waiting." Magazines did so, among other ways, by their stress on self-improvement, a characteristic that differentiates America from other times and lands where "men and women have been schooled to accept the lot into which God or fate put them." The U.S., continued Luce, has developed a "questing spirit-a quest not only for what we call the good life but also a quest for greater meaning in that good life, for higher achievements of mind and spirit...
Clearly, Pakistan had little choice but to accept the U.N.'s cease-fire ultimatum. Cut off from U.S. and British arms supplies, denied Russian aid, and severely mauled by the larger Indian armed forces, Pakistan could continue the fight only by teaming up with Red China and turning its back on the U.N. To take those steps would have meant a permanent break with the West and an end to the Western aid that has so greatly stimulated Pakistan's economy. India, by contrast, is still the big gainer in the war. Shastri had united the nation...
There are still many hostelries with a stated "no pet" policy. But on the whole, admits one Copenhagen hotel manager, "dogs are good guests and easy to please. They don't polish their shoes on the bedclothes or steal our expensive ashtrays." A Paris hotelier agrees: "I gladly accept pets," he says, "but not American children. They are too destructive...
Such perversity is by now old hat. We accept it stoically, just as America accepts "Love of Life" and "Mr. Ed" (the talking horse). But, like the new TV season, this year's catalogue goes one step too far. Some one has displayed the acute prescience to schedule Government 104 and Philosophy 171 at the same time, MWF at 11. The former boasts Professor Maurice Cranston, one of the finest English political philosophers of the century. The latter features Professor John Rawls, perhaps the best mind in American political philosophy. Students interested in one are of course interested...