Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge members of the state legislature have refused to accept a $3600 pay raise for their work this year. Both supposed the raise last June, when legislators voted quickly and over wheiminagly to increase theif salaries from $6200 to $7300 a year...
Among these are such elder statesmen as Dean Acheson, 70, to whose acerbic tongue Kennedy liked to listen -but whose advice he did not often accept. Then there are Benjamin Cohen, 69, Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, 62, legal-eagle wheeler-dealers of the early New Deal days, and James H. Rowe, 54, now a Washington law partner of Corcoran's and a longtime Johnson political adviser. Spanning the Truman and Kennedy administrations is Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford, 56, a peerless behind-the-scenes political troubleshooter who is as close to Johnson as he was to Truman...
...Reject It." As Morton sat down, Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore sprang to his feet, praised him for his speech, then seconded it in powerful words: "I accept no blame for what this demented man did. I feel no sense of personal guilt. He is the one who had become a fanatic. Why should all America be blamed for the actions of one fanatic? True, our society has many problems and imperfections, much stress and distress, hate, fear and disappointment; but it is an injustice to our millions of people of good will, even the teeming thousands of hospitable, cheering people...
...There are risks and the risks are great," warned left-wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni. We must accept "the margin of risk," declared Christian Democratic Chief Aldo Moro. The atmosphere plainly was more suspicious than auspicious for the new Italian government. After months of dickering, while the nation marked time under a caretaker Cabinet, the Christian Democrats finally were ready to conclude their marriage of convenience-or perhaps inconvenience-with Nenni's left-wing Socialists. It was the first time in 16 years that a doctrinaire Marxist party would share power in any major West European Cabinet...
...Atlanta, the Georgia Supreme Court threw out the conviction and one-year prison sentence of an Atlanta alderman who had been found guilty of accepting a $1,750 "present" intended to influence his vote in a zoning case. Georgia, the court declared with obvious embarrassment, has no law making it a crime for a municipal official to accept a bribe...