Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Improved teaching at small colleges through such inducements as federal fellowships for junior faculty members at large institutions who are willing to accept posts at smaller ones, at a cost of $30 million the first year...
...farm (corn, wheat, hogs, Aberdeen-Angus beef cattle) that Shuman owns in partnership with his three older sons. Like father, like sons. The Shuman boys are hotly against government in agriculture. "I don't see why the Federal Government should support me," said Charles. "Dad wouldn't accept a green check-from the Government-and neither would we."† Weekend over, Mabel drives Charlie back to Mattoon on Monday morning in time to catch the 7:06 back...
Unanswered last week was the question of whether the Yemeni people would accept the peace; neither the republicans nor the royalists were represented at Jedda. Twice before, the Egyptian and the Saudi had "agreed" to stop the brutal little war, but each effort has shattered on the rocks of Nasser's ambition, Feisal's fear of Egyptian encroachment, and ancient rivalries in Yemen itself, where the tough mountain tribes consider themselves the natural rulers of the lowland tribes. Nor was it very clear just how a referendum could be held in a land whose 5,000,000 people...
...paths of church and state converged. During the 19th century, for example, the Government subsidized frontier preachers to help pacify-even as they tried to convert-warring Indian tribes. In the Reconstruction era, church agencies were given public grants to assist freed slaves. Moreover, the U.S. came to accept the right and duty of the churches to influence legislation when a moral issue was involved-happily, before the Civil War, in the case of Northern Protestants who fought for abolition, less so later when Prohibition was imposed on the nation largely through efforts of Baptists and Methodists...
That Bogy. Some churchmen also wonder whether the churches' willingness to accept Government aid is progress at all. Particularly concerned are Baptists and conservative Lutherans, whose spiritual tradition strongly emphasizes absolute separation of religion and government. Although some Baptist colleges plan to apply for federal funds under the Higher Education Facilities Act, Baptists in Massachusetts have rejected public loans for hospital expansion under the Hill-Burton Hospital Construction Act or for low-income housing under the National Housing Act. This summer, despite their sympathy for the aims of Project Head Start, they reluctantly decided not to participate directly, instead...