Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be a shame to ask the Negro once again to accept a half-loaf measure. The Kennedy bill, however, provides more than half a loaf. It would furnish the means for desegregating public accommodations, for speeding up school integration, for ensuring the right to vote, and for facilitating the voluntary desegregation of housing and employment. It is the most sweeping civil rights measure ever presented to Congress by an American President. It ought to be passed and passed soon; afterwards the gaps it leaves can be filled...
Leontief asked Rothko to do the murals last in 1961, when Holyoke Center was being completed, because he felt that "the University lacked real modern art." Rothko agreed to accept the commission after he had surveyed the room and conferred with several college officials...
...Cold War: "We must not give ground anywhere. Does that mean that we should never be able to improve our chances of living together with Russia or engineering better relations? I could not accept that pessimistic conclusion. The impact of education and science is inevitably working a social change in the Soviet Union. A revolution started 40 years ago cannot maintain its momentum for ever. In spite of all setbacks, we must persevere. Today we keep the peace by the balance of terror-because that is what life is. But we must work to wards keeping the peace by reason...
...immunosuppressive drugs, Imuran and prednisone, that the doctors had given her to increase the likelihood that the liver graft would "take" instead of being rejected. Last week she was well enough to take a ride outside the hospital, but the crucial time, determining whether her system will accept or reject her grafted liver, is not likely to come until early in November...
Finally, others contend that an invitation to Wallace shows insensitivity to the feelings of Boston's Negro Community. To accept this assertion one must first assume that there is a monolithic Negro point of view. Members of the Civil Rights Co-ordinating Committee find Wallace's presence objectionable. On the other hand, Mel King, Negro candidate for School Committee, feels Wallace's speech might sharpen the contrast between freedom in the North and oppression in the South to the Negro's advantage...