Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reagan suggested that "either we accept the responsibility for our own destiny or we abandon the American Revolution." As for Communism abroad, he argued: "The specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face is that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and appeasement does not give you a choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender." He concluded with a ringing call to responsibility. "Should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the Pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns...
Rather than accept a subordinate post in someone else's Cabinet, however, George Papandreou seemed determined to take all or nothing. "One cannot compromise on principles," he declared, returning from a spectacular though peaceful funeral for Student Petroulas that was attended by 70,000 supporters. "If the so-called government resigns, which it should, which it will, then the King must call the leader of the majority party in Parliament to form a government. I am that leader, and I shall be called to return. I have no intention of starting a revolution, but that would be the result...
After graduation, Dunn briefly considered becoming a missionary ("A young man feels he has to serve") and entered a Capuchin monastery. He describes his religious experiences as "an intellectual process, probably of parabolic shape." After six months he decided he could not accept the dogma and left...
...Eric Sevareid quoted Stevenson as having said only two days before his death that he wanted to quit: "For a while, I would just like to sit in the shade with a glass of wine in my hand and watch people dance." But before he accepted President Kennedy's offer to be Ambassador to the United Nations, Stevenson had indicated that he intended to stay with the job as long as he was wanted. "If I accept this appointment," he told a friend, "I am committed to support the President this side of treason or madness. There...
...vice-presidency to Johnson as a gesture aimed at reuniting the Democrats. Because of the bitterness of the Kennedy-Johnson fight for the nomination and Johnson's power as Senate majority leader, writes Schlesinger, Kennedy "was certain that there was practically no chance that Johnson would accept...