Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer was no, he would not. Bundy, who can chill a polar bear with his codfish-cold scorn, replied that his schedule was crowded; besides, he could hardly accept "an invitation given on ten days' notice." There were, however, a few points he wanted to impress on the scholars. Wrote he, in his icy reply...
...Returning home from a Middle Eastern tour in which he visited the Jordanian refugee camps near Jericho, where 71,000 Palestinian Arabs have languished for 17 years, Bourguiba declared that it was obviously impossible to erase Israel from the map by force and that therefore it made sense to accept its presence. He proposed that the long-festering refugee problem be settled on the basis of the 1947 United Nations partition plan, which would require Israel's surrender of about a third of its territory...
...falling short. The Ivy League (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale) and its related Big Seven women's colleges (Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley) were besieged by 62,000 applications for only 12,190 freshmen openings. Elsewhere, Swarthmore could accept only 460 out of 2,500 applicants, Carleton 375 of 1,750, Stanford...
...with a policy of peaceful coexistence with the U.S. They declare themselves to be fighting with their backs to the wall, barely holding their own against the growing influence of the faction that favors the hard line of Chinese." The Soviet Union cannot be expected to sit back and accept the destruction of North Viet Nam, Morgenthau argues. "Every target hit weakens not the resolution of Hanoi to unify Viet Nam under its auspices but the resolution of the Soviet Union to stay out of the conflict. It cannot afford to remain indefinitely passive; for to do so would...
...Wasn't Able to Sleep." The heartbreak and sorrow came as he predicted, but chiefly because St. John's thus made itself the only Episcopal church in the U.S. unable to accept the decision of its spiritual leaders. Many of the parishioners broke into tears when the vote was announced, and even those who plan to follow Risley on his independent course are troubled about what they have done...