Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Often the changes in attitudes are tiny in scope but broad in meaning. No longer do the starters at Miami's municipal golf courses ask a trio of white men if they will accept a Negro fourth; they merely assign the Negro, and the foursome heads onto the course. A New York adoption agency is asking white families to take Negro children. Louise Morgan, a former Chicago advertising executive, says: "I had conned myself into thinking I was a liberal. The rude awakening occurred less than a year ago, when a Negro writer and his family sought an apartment...
...such an answer is too narrow. These celebrities work before audiences, which ask only to be entertained-and which are too often unwilling to accept the Negro as an equal beyond recognition of physical or artistic talent...
...time. Last year Dobbs was the first Republican ever to run for the seat, ended up being clobbered by Incumbent Democrat Homer Thornberry, 42,000 to 25,000. This election came about because Thornberry, who had held the job since Johnson gave it up in 1948, had resigned to accept a Kennedy appointment to the federal bench...
...would be much bloodshed. Naturally, said Lechin, he put little faith in the government's promises. "I have my doubts about this agreement. But the fact is that the life of this community is at stake." At last, with a grudging show of hands the miners voted to accept his deal and release their hostages...
...world of magazine publishing is haunted by a handful of entrepreneurs who hold that the ingredients of success consist almost entirely of paper and ink. They are not particularly interested in mail subscribers or advertisers, although they accept such business as comes in unsolicited. Nor are they concerned much with the quality of their editorial product, relying on the probability that there are newsstand suckers who will buy anything. No one has applied this publishing theory with more personal satisfaction than a onetime freelance writer named Hy Steirman...