Word: accept
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...English four times, escaped once. After the 1921 treaty, by which Britain created the self-governing Irish Free State but retained jurisdiction over the six Protestant counties of Ulster, civil war flared between "pro-treaty" Irishmen and De Valera's followers, who cried that Ireland could not accept partition. Lemass, an officer on De Valera's staff, was captured by the other side and imprisoned for a year. In jail he continued his war-shattered education with a cram course in economics, politics and Irish revolutionary writings...
...University's proposal was almost $1 million under the $6,525,000 offer made by Boston realtor Samuel P. Coffman, but though final bids were opened in April the MTA Board of Trustees has so far refused to accept any of them. Difficulty in relocating the switching and storing facilities could delay the sale of the yards indefinately...
Christian hermits began to settle on Athos about the middle of the 9th century. In 959 St. Athanasios, a learned monk, fled to the peace of the Holy Mount rather than accept an appointment as confessor to the Byzantine Emperor. There, he said, the Virgin appeared before him and promised her perpetual protection for the monastery he was building. Eventually, about 80 monks joined him to complete Great Lavra. Today the monastic population is about 2,000, divided into cenobites, who live, work and pray together, and idiorrhythmic monks, who have tiny cottages and apartments and gather only...
...take effect until next April at the earliest, he wanted to put the other carriers on early alert that Pan Am will press for cheaper travel-as it long has -when the clubby International Air Transport Association convenes next fall. l.A.T.A.'s European lines forced the U.S. to accept higher rates two months ago (TIME, May 24), but the U.S. may well be in a stronger position next fall. Reason: Congress is likely to strengthen the Civil Aeronautics Board's powers of retaliation against balky foreign lines...
...phrase "substantial" has caused a great deal of concern among legislators who fear its vagueness and unenforceability. Before the Senate Commerce Committee Monday Robert Kennedy indicated the Administration would accept a more precise definition of "substantial" involvement in inter-state commerce. This "definition" would probably be the setting of a certain cash volume of total business as the cut-off point for jurisdiction...