Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conant, who is in Berlin as European educational adviser to the Ford Foundation, was unable to accept the $1000 award in person, but in a letter he expressed hope that "the award signifies a wide acceptance of my pleas for a new look at teacher education...
...year, the Cleveland Browns' fullback Jimmy Brown, 28, is football's most highly paid player. However, he says in his autobiography, Off My Chest, "the more successful a Negro is, the more difficult it becomes to accept second-class citizenship." He illustrates his proposition soberingly by endorsing the racist Black Muslims. "Does the white man realize that the Black Muslim's attitude toward whites is shared by almost 99% of the Negro population? I protest prejudice, but I am a prejudiced man. The white man has forced me to be prejudiced against...
...city's new $2.5 million library Oct. 30. Last Tuesday, Salt Lake City's mayor, J. Bracken Lee, a noted ultraconservative, wrote a protest to the Public Library Board and commented, "If you insist on having a man like Mr. Galbraith, you might also consider finding someone else to accept the building on behalf of Salt Lake City instead of myself...
Martin Luther King and Ella Baker, MFDP Washington staff member, clash violently over the issue. The delegation must accept the compromise, says King, to lessen "the long suffering and deep-seated frustration of the Negro people." "We must reject it," says Miss Baker, "to condemn the massive political pressure exerted by the administration...
...immediately clear what criteria would be used to determine admission to a limited course, but applications have never gone above the limits in some courses, and these are expected simply to accept everyone who wants...