Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long-standing suspicion that not all is right with Harvard's system of assigning freshmen to the Houses was confirmed officially when the Masters of the House split evenly on the motion to accept Dean Elder's report to Dean Ford. Master Taylor's cancellation of freshmen interviews at Kirkland House provided an official clue to what was wrong...
...Rockefeller's huge rally in Manchester, the audience was different. These were people satisfied with the status quo, who merely wanted a Republican status quo in place of a Democratic one. Barely cosmopolitan enough to accept Rockefeller's divorce, they were pleased by his vague talk of "taking a stand on the issues." They were not very interested in foreign affairs, and Rockefeller generally avoided the subject. He mentioned "crumbling Western alliances" and "the leadership gap in Washington...
...blood transfusion that saved the reluctant patient's life indicates his clear-cut and courageous thinking. A society has the right to prevent its citizens from committing suicide, whether that suicide takes the form of handling rattlesnakes in a religious ceremony, barbecuing oneself with gasoline, or refusing to accept medical care on the threshold of death...
...them out in a big hurry. The tinikling is a Philippine dance, and the object is to see what deft steps you can pull off while hopping in and out between the two rhythmically clapping bamboo poles. So while he was over at the Philippine embassy in Washington to accept an award, Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, 48, gamely shed shoes and tried his foot at it. He even managed a smile when a spectator sport heckled: "Go under it, man! Limbo...
...tariff "disparities." In cases where the Common Market tariffs are much smaller than the others, they want to reduce their own duties by 25%, while the U.S. and Britain drop theirs by one-half. Last week the U.S. negotiator, W. Michael Blumenthal, 38, proposed a compromise: the U.S. would accept the principle of unequal cuts for disparities if the Common Market would agree to reduce the number of disparity cases from about 900 to 450 out of the 5,000 products to be discussed in the Kennedy Round...