Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unhappy Alternatives Sir: Your balanced comparison of the alternatives that are open to us in Southeast Asia [June 5] confirms what I have believed for a long time: the only alternative to our own defeat is to accept neutralization, even if the area becomes Communist...
...attempt were to be made, it would, if successful, leave the Republican Party in a deeply divided state. Barry Goldwater himself would undoubtedly support Scranton or any other nominee; he has made party loyalty his gospel. But his dedicated followers have gone too far and worked too hard to accept an eleventh-hour defeat. Thus, as the situation stood last week, the G.O.P.'s probable course was to accept Goldwater, rally behind him, and work to influence him toward mainstream positions...
...most myth-filled aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination is the stubborn refusal of many Europeans to accept the belief that the U.S. President could have been killed by a lunatic loner. Headline after headline and book after book roll off the presses with a bewildering array of theories suggesting a deep, dark plot...
Last week, in an effort to settle the whole scrap, the Metro Commission voted to pay Phillips the $975 set by Judge Eaton and accept the injunction that ordered him to remove the caboose. Phillips reluctantly agreed to go along. Looking back on the long fight, he says he would have preferred to be prosecuted in criminal court as a zoning law violator. He feels that then he might have pleaded his case before a jury that would have been more sympathetic than his neighbors...
...companies offered an eyebrow-raising defense. They did not deny the price-fixing conspiracy but denied that it had been "fraudulently concealed." They contended, in effect, that customers knew about the fix but that high officers of the electrical-equipment companies did not. The jury found this hard to accept...