Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their years of service and support for the diocese indicate, the supporters of the Lovett School are in many respects dutiful and loyal members of the church who simply cannot accept this one summons to obedience on the question of desegregation. Yet the Episcopal bishops have made it unmistakably clear that in 1963 the real test of Christian service is whether a man lives up to this specific application of Jesus' command, "Love thy neighbor...
Reached in Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Spock said he "had been asked about this, and I told them I would accept the proposal if they could get Stuart Hughes to serve, too." Dr. Spock joined SANE a year and a half ago. He lectured and recorded radio commercials for Hughes during the latter's unsuccessful Senate campaign last year...
Either they had forgotten or been detained (which ought to strike even Julie as implausible) or they had been plain-lying, and then why would they lie? If she were lazy or frightened enough, she just might accept the first explanation, hollow as it would sound. She might avoid the real problem (why did they lie?) as lesser people than she avoid so much by not seeing the Negro. And she might avoid it indefinitely if whatever she were running from in the North were sufficiently terrible, end up lying blatantly to herself and only step up the volume...
...after his call for unity, Warren went to Manhattan to accept an honorary membership in the New York City Bar Association. He found a band of jeering Birchist pickets waiting to heave placards at him. Said Warren: "It is a great thing that they can do this in this country...
...retaining the right under the Connally amendment to decide unilaterally which World Court decisions to accept, the Justice declared, this country betrays a "lack of confidence in the rule of law" which it has long championed in domestic legal theory...