Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...save the young man from starving, our friend said; he had diagnosed the student's condition as extreme yang and fed him yin foods. When he died at the Institute a week before Christmas, he weighed 90 pounds, although he was nearly six feet tall. Our friend seemed to accept his death with calm resolve...
...bosses Bolivia's revolutionary junta, is a sort of Steve Canyon of the Andes - handsome, dashing, and almost too lucky to be true. Since 1962, he has survived seven assassination at tempts: four by gunfire, three by bombs. Last year, just after President Victor Paz Estenssoro refused to accept Barrientos as a vice-presidential candidate, an assailant's bullet ricocheted off the U.S. pilot wings on the general's jacket, causing a slight wound. The incident made Barrientos such a hero that Paz was forced to accept him as a running mate. Last week Bolivians witnessed...
...Envy. Unlike most disillusioned repatriates from behind the Iron Curtain, Author Carew understands that Negroes are tough for the Russians to accept. "Strangers are new to all of us-black strangers and white ones," Jojo's Russian roommate admits painfully. "We have never had them living in our midst since the Revolution, and now, all of a sudden, we have young people from the four corners of the earth among us. You must try to understand our confusion. We have been told again and again that your people are hungry and illiterate, victims of imperialist greed and oppression...
...life is a case in point. An editor of the South African magazine Drum, a weekly columnist, and possibly South Africa's leading African journalist, Nakasa was denied a passport by the South African government which would have enabled him to arrive at the University in time to accept a Nieman Fellowship. Instead, he was given an exit permit, allowing him to come (he arrived two months late), but at the expense of his citizenship. Should he try to return to South Africa, Nakasa faces trial and up to three years' imprisonment--all because of his journalistic success...
Alan Schnelder, who is presently directing an off-Broadway production of Edward Albee's Tiny Alice, told Levin two weeks ago that he is sure that, if the schedule were sufficiently flexible, Broadway directors would accept invitations to come to Harvard...