Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people in the world," orated Algerian Premier Ahmed ben Bella to his fanatically cheering audience, "the Algerians are the last ones who will accept dictatorship." Then Ben Bella proceeded to make himself the one-man ruler of a one-party state...
...Dobzhansky predicted that many new discoveries will soon be made about man's evolution. He does not accept the gloomy doctrine that the human species is headed for degradation because natural selection no longer operates in human society, or that human evolution stopped when civilization appeared. "Both are untrue," he said. "Natural selection is at work when a defective child dies or when a dwarfed man fails to find a mate. A high mortality rate is not necessary for natural selection to operate. The great danger to man is not the suppression of natural selection but what is called...
...educational system is based on promotion of the best students and work for the rest-often as "cultured peasants" to raise the intellectual level in the villages. These luckless students and their families hate the whole business, and the Communist press is campaigning to make ex-students "gladly" accept their work assignments. One paper recently heaped glory on the college students who smirked scarcely at all when one old grad came back to take a job on the campus-cleaning the toilets...
...approved $43 million in grants and loans for a rebuilding program in which 60 of 84 buildings to be torn down are still structurally sound. Neilan saved his severest criticism for the Area Redevelopment Administration, whose agents, said he, are "combing the country in search of communities which will accept such tokens of ARA generosity as a ski lift or waterworks or a sewer line at the expense of every taxpayer." Notable ARA projects...
Frederick Erroll, president of Britain's Board of Trade, recently back from a trade trip to Czechoslovakia and about to go off to Moscow, sums up the pragmatic attitude of many European businessmen: "We accept the fact that trade with the Iron Curtain countries benefits them, but it also benefits...