Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told friends he was prepared to fight for the job. Hailsham, an ebullient individualist whose jingoistic rhetoric stirs the squirearchy to rapture, told a wildly cheering We-Want-Hailsham rally: "I am now prepared to disclaim my peerage and resign as leader of the House of Lords and to accept the invitation of any constituency that is prepared to receive...
...Indiana bar association, he argued that the lawyer's ethical responsibilities go beyond mere observance of the rules in the code of professional ethics. The lawyer must be "a guardian of due process," must "assert leadership in the struggle to maintain the philosophy of freedom under law," must accept a responsibility to help "educate our young people to the merit and genius of our complex form of Government...
Many persons are also intimidated by Vorster's Red-smear campaign against such groups as the Liberal Party and NUSAS. These bodies are still too respectable to be banned out-right. But the smears are clearly directed at preparing public opinion to accept a ban on the leaders of these groups or of the groups themselves...
First, a growing body of students are beginning to accept the government's pleas for white unity behind its policies. They believe that the country is facing a dire Red-Black threat. In the face of terrorism and Black nationalism, they accepted the delusion that the government's program of territorial separation--in which many Africans would have to live in Bantustans--is a workable solution...
...Harvard Council on Undergraduate Affairs last night refused to accept a parietal hours committee report recommending the extension of Friday night parietals to midnight before home football games...