Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a one hour private meeting with the attorneys, Leen decided to accept written affidavits from interested parties but to permit only City Manager James L. Sullivan and City Solicitor Philip M. Cronin 53 to testify in person...
Writing in the Washington Post, Kraft charged that Pusey had angered liberal Faculty members by pressing the Overseers to accept his arrangement for the new University-wide Committee on Governance...
Gross raises such questions in a wide-ranging epilogue, answering them all with a graceful, regretful, thoroughly qualified "maybe." He more or less accepts the McLuhanite theory that the art of communication is passing from the straight, hard linear man of the Gutenberg Galaxy into the noisy psychedelic womb of sound, sensation, sniff, touch and hash. But he does not accept it gladly, and the later stars in the Caxton Constellation (an English group in Gutenberg's inky way) do much to disprove his own thesis. Paradoxically, too, so will his book itself, at least temporarily, if it achieves...
...beaverish scuffler who stays in boxing only because it is the life he knows. The fighter often tells the manager what to do. He may still be chased into the ring by the pinch of poverty and some inner reach toward identity, but he usually does not accept pain and futility for long. If he does stay in and doesn't make it, as Leonard Gardner shows in this moving and perceptive first novel, he will find the modern fight scene, though anything but richly dramatic, every bit as cruel and lonely as ever...
...September 8 the Corporation voted to accept the findings of the Joint Committee, which charged that Stauder's "grave misconduct" was to encourage and participate in the forcible occupation of University Hall...