Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elimination, that leaves Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton as the best remaining hope for anti-Goldwater Republicans. Until last week, Scranton was genuinely unwilling to make a move. For months he insisted that he did not want the nomination, would not seek it, and would only reluctantly accept a genuine draft. Despite Scranton's repeated statements, it was behind him that anti-Goldwater Republican leaders late last week tried to rally-and Scranton showed signs of acquiescence. On Saturday, Dwight Eisenhower asked Scranton to visit him in Gettysburg. Ike urged Scranton to begin taking a "positive" view about...
...that there be "compulsory public disclosure" of their financial holdings; 2) that they be prohibited from associating with persons engaged in any business with the Government; and 3) that they be required to testify at the request of Senate committees. There was not much chance that the Senate would accept these recommendations...
...encourage North Vietnamese Premier Ho Chi Minh to become a kind of Tito in the shadow of Red China. In one view, expressed by Asian Expert Bernard Fall, Ho Chi Minh is afraid of U.S. air strikes, which could destroy his struggling economy, and if suitably threatened he would accept a neutral, more or less independent South Viet...
...when he prepares to leave both he measures his maturity by showing that he is able to forgive, accept and love them as they are. Like his hero Playwright Gilroy has the clarity of insight to recognize that it is not the sin of the fathers or mothers that are visited on the sons, but certain almost immutable patterns of human temperament and behavior that are repeated and repeated and repeated and for which no one can rightly be blamed...
...occupied states of Eastern Europe responded with enthusiasm. But before their delegations could pack their scuffed suitcases and head West, Moscow thundered its veto of Commu nist participation in the Marshall Plan. Last week, in Conference Room 1105A of the State Department, a Rumanian delegation was finally able to accept, if not the 17-year-old offer, at least a latterday, more commercial version...