Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monday, December 16 BREAKING POINT (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Lillian Gish plays an aging actress who refuses to accept the death of her husband...
Money Is Better. As the "scarlet epidemic" spread, it became more distinguished to reject than to accept the award. Degas, De Maupassant, Clemenceau, Gide, Sartre and Camus all allegedly turned the Legion down. Offered the medal in lieu of payment for his famed requiem commissioned by the government, Composer Hector Berlioz snorted: "To hell with your Legion of Honor. I want my money." But a refusal cannot be worn in a buttonhole, and thousands of other Frenchmen still openly court the award...
...liars, but I've found that most women playing Diplomacy can't bring themselves to lie, or else they are very bad at it. My wife got extremely upset the first time I doublecrossed her, and now, although she understands it intellectually, she still can't accept a betrayal emotionally...
...January the new opera got an enthusiastic reception in Moscow. Last week, with the new title of Katerina Ismailova, it had its Western debut at London's Covent Garden. To the delight of an audience that would not stop cheering until the shy Shostakovich had come onstage to accept a laurel wreath, every change turned out to be strictly the work of a matured and masterly composer...
Those who advocate a fully professionalised military, then, must be willing to accept an enormous increase in salary expenditures. In 1959, when the government paid $11.5 billion in military salaries, the Nation estimated that pay checks would have to be raised from 40 to 50 per cent across the board in order to make the military completely professional. Today, the salary bill is $13 billion dollars and the retention problem is greater than it was five years...