Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy's political future is in doubt. He has repeatedly said that he plans to resign as Attorney General after the November elections. Friends have insisted that he would accept the Vice-Presidential nomination but President Johnson seems unenthusiastic about the prospect. His younger brother's campaign for reelection to the Senate eliminates the possibility for elective office in Massachusetts this year...
...Harding landslide. In 1922, Cannon ran for the seat and won. He was re-elected 20 times, and on the day following his last election in 1962, he filed for his 22nd term. In all those years, he stood free of all political commitments by stubbornly refusing to accept campaign contributions of any size or sort...
...where in such respects as wealth, numbers, and strength of organization, it is so powerful." No well-informed Catholic, as Monsignor John Tracy Ellis said, would challenge this statement. But the Church is changing, and it is now possible to imagine Catholic intellectuals who instead of abandoning their religion, accept it, and become absorbed...
...husband on grounds of desertion. With her child she moves to a small Midwestern town, takes a job in a factory. Her friendship with a Negro fellow worker (Bernie Hamilton) turns gradually to love. His parents are appalled, warn him "not to marry any damn white woman," and accept the union only when a son is born. Four years later, Julie's first husband turns up. He has made good money, he says, and he demands custody of Ellen. An understanding judge finds the Richards' family life "exemplary" but cannot defy the social structure, and he sends...
...great safeguards of U.S. law is the stern refusal of criminal courts to accept illegally seized evidence. Yet many a lawyer has been moved to ask: Has this well-intentioned "suppression doctrine" reached a point of endangering the public safety...