Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chief said that Harvard officials were concerned only with "the attitude of the small minority who want complete freedom but are unwilling to accept accompanying responsibility...
...face of the unanimity of all eleven impartial, labor-management experts, the unions still refuse to accept the decision. They plan to challenge both the decision and the law under which it was made in the courts. Their attempts will probably fail, but their intransigence may undermine future cooperation between labor and management in adjusting to needed technological change...
Many small dailies seem disposed to accept their starvation diet as if it were an ineluctable fact of newspaper life. Says John Murphy, executive director of the Texas Daily Newspaper Association: "The shortage of editorial help is our own fault. We ought to have a better clearing house of information, and closer contacts with the schools. We don't really have any system...
...year, and Reuther, in negotiation with the Big Three, may be willing to trade off his profit-sharing demand if he can win shorter hours or higher wages. Some executives begrudge profit sharing to workers who (they think) do less to increase earnings than do managers or machines. Others accept it as a weapon to keep out unions (the majority of companies with profit-sharing plans are not unionized...
...possibly of noble blood. "Your father a sphinx," Apollinaire once bitterly gibed at himself, "your mother a one-night stand." At 19, he was helping his mother swindle a hotelkeeper in Belgium out of three months' food and lodging. At 20, when a young English governess refused to accept his hand in marriage, he threatened to throw her (not himself) off the cliff on which they were standing...