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Word: accept (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shortly before 1 p.m., Dirksen and Percy escorted Barry to the Grecian Room, presented him to the delegates. Wearing a PERCY FOR GOVERNOR button, Goldwater rambled for a few minutes about the need for party unity and harmony, especially mentioned his civil rights vote, and said: "I will accept the civil rights plank of the platform, and as President will uphold and enforce the civil rights law. As President, I would want an Attorney General who would enforce the law. My Attorney General would uphold the law or I would get another one." He said that segregation is "foolishness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Ev & Barry Show | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

...Laird hopes that all factions can get together on a simple statement pledging vigorous enforcement of the new bill. Goldwater has indicated that he can readily agree to that. Laird may also propose new measures to secure Negro voting rights in the South, another proposal that Goldwater would accept. Since it takes two to tangle, there may not be much of a fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: One Platform for All | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

Despite such bickering, the movement thrives. Thousands of well-off U.S. couples, many of them Roman Catholics, accept the Montessori principle that a child's mind, far from being a clean slate, contains a blueprint of self-civilization; the school and teachers need only provide conditions for the child to follow the blueprint. Kids who are able to follow often learn to read, write and do binomial theorems at six-which is why Montessori schools rise faster than competent teachers can be found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: Montessori in the Slums | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

...interested Lutherans during his mission trips. Mjorud, who is also a devotee of faith healing, was warned several times by the Evangelism Commission, and only the intervention of A.L.C. President Fredrik Schiotz saved him from dismissal last year. Although fired as a traveling evangelist, Mjorud is still free to accept a call by any congregation that wants him, and he intends to keep on speaking as the Spirit directs. "It's my calling," he says, "and there are many open doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lutherans: Taming the Tongues | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

Chestnut had hoped to convince the sheriff to accept property bonds instead of cash to avoid the need for filing in the federal court, 169 miles away in Mobile. The sheriff, however, has insisted on cash...

Author: By Richard Cotton, | Title: Harvard Junior Jailed In Test of Rights Law | 7/7/1964 | See Source »

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