Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nkrumah insist that they cannot afford the luxury of dissent and opposition. Many argue, by way of rationalization, that the one-party state is a modern adaptation of traditional tribal society, in which the individual was free to ex press his viewpoint under the baobab tree, but had to accept the tribe's (or chief's) decision once rendered. And indeed a certain amount of discussion filters up from the ranks to the top in parties like TANU, even in Nkrumah's monolithic Convention People's Party. Osagyefo recently told a visitor that he not only...
...nervously: "What are you going to say?" She, coyly: "Well, you haven't written anything for me yet." He, mutteringly: "I can tell she's going to upstage me." And right he was. Rising at a dinner of Chicago's Notre Dame Club to accept their "Woman of the Year" award, Dolores Hope introduced her husband of 30 years: "Well, I've either got to use Bob's idiot cards or give you the idiot himself. Bob, you're on." The comic valiantly flip-quipped his way through 30 minutes (the one time...
...untapped brain power to usher in "a higher plane of civilization" that would make classical Greece or the Renaissance look like cultural wastelands by comparison. "All that is required," Gallup asserts with Panglossian optimism, "is a firm belief in man's great potentialities and a readiness to accept change...
Saltonstall resigned last year as principal of Phillips Exeter Academy to accept Sargent Shriver's invitation to direct the Peace Corps program in Nigeria. "I've missed Exeter and I've missed New England," he said, "but I haven't regretted it for a minute...
...under-developed country must be able to endure discomforts and frustration. He must be able to live simply, to enjoy the food of the country. As one Peace Corps official put it, "It's all a kind of maturity. A person must be able to see, understand, and accept...