Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This "personality" and "dynamic" new morality is often difficult to accept, he explained because "many people are not able to face up to complexity." The Church of the future, he said, may be a smaller but more committed group...
Last week Johnson refused to accept jurisdiction. Ruled the judge: "There is no immunity conferred by our Constitution and laws of the United States to those individuals who insist upon practicing civil disobedience under the guise of demonstrating or protesting for 'civil rights.' The philosophy that a person may-if his cause is labeled 'civil rights' or 'states' rights'-determine for himself what laws and court decisions are morally right or wrong and either obey or refuse to obey them according to his own determination, is a philosophy that is foreign...
...Edmund Muskie: "I don't have any alternative that I consider realistic or any more effective than what the President is using. Trying to play the game looking over his shoulder without seeing his cards is difficult to do. On the face of it, I can't accept the idea of withdrawal. I feel unhappy about Viet Nam-but I'm not particularly rebellious. The idea of the measured response is what bothers people. They'd like a more clear-cut way to reach objectives. I don't see how he could go further...
...wheat in the fields, then quietly ordering farmers to hold their crops for future delivery after prices had soared higher. In Shastri's home state, wheat that had been selling for $173.25 per ton doubled in price in a matter of weeks. State bosses then refused to accept Shastri's rationing plan, and India had to double its normal import of grain from abroad -expanding valuable foreign exchange in the process. The U.S. grain supply to India reached 6,650,000 tons - two shiploads a day - and saved the country from sheer starvation...
Appointed to 15-year terms by the President, COMA judges automatically review all sentences involving death and all sentences involving flag officers. They accept or reject other appeals as they see fit, hear 30-minute oral arguments, and issue written opinions on "decision days" (Fridays...