Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...huffily recalled fleet units on their way to visit Algiers. The Moscow-dominated World Youth Festival, which had been scheduled for this month in Algiers, was moved elsewhere-to Boumedienne's apparent relief. After a week without rioting on Algerian streets, initially hostile Arab governments appeared ready to accept the new Revolutionary Council. The most favorable foreign reaction came from French officials who, after months of negotiating a formula for dividing Algeria's oil revenues, found the new government surprisingly cooperative...
There is one other matter which I wish to announce," Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson remarked to the Members of Parliament in Ottawa last week. "The Minister of Justice this morning submitted his resignation to me. After discussing the matter twice with him, I have no course but to accept it. I do so with deep regret...
...history, no household of any substance woke, ate, played, lived or died without servants in attendance. Not so in the U.S. The fact is not just something for wives to natter about over the pink extension phone; most of them have stopped nattering about it long ago and accept it as a matter of course. Servantless living is so much a part of the American scene that a family with two cars in the garage, a kidney-shaped swimming pool, three TV sets, a $1,000 stereophonic unit, and a vacation cottage in the mountains may not notice that anything...
...servantless life results in shared work and play within the family group," and "makes for cooperation with relatives and friends"; besides, "if there were servants as in the old South, wives might get too lazy to go back to work after the children are grown." Some American wives accept such rationalizations and often insist on "doing everything" themselves; this may result in a serene sense of accomplishment, but just as often in a martyred claim on the family's sympathy, admiration and help...
...refused to accept fees from his students, subsisted by playing concerts in Italy for the top fee of $3,200 per performance...