Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he had been the most gifted of actors and that I wish he would accept the difficult challenges necessary to his form in order to maintain his marvel...
...taxexempt. (Le Fisc finally abandoned its hit-and-mistress methods this year.) When the inspectors started demanding taxpayers' financial records, artful Frenchmen from plumbers to landlords retaliated by insisting on cash for their services; the most fashionable doctor in Paris today would sooner vote for socialized medicine than accept a patient's check...
...They must draw upon history and their perception of the present to determine whether they can in fact become an equal part of the American plurality, or whether they must turn their allegiance towards Africa. Americans, with or without African background, have not found it easy to articulate or accept this conception of the question, but it is a question which must be examined by Negro intellectuals, and on their own terms. By publishing a magazine and issuing policy statements, the proposed Association could help provide leadership in a debate that affects civil rights in this country and nationalism...
Following the 1955 Pulitzer award, award, Lewis rejoined the Times staff. He took a year's leave in 1956 to accept a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard and study at the Law School. Since his return he has been the Times' chief Supreme Court reporter...
Thus James was no stranger to morbid gloom--nor could he easily dispose of the problem of evil. For him evil was real and palpable, but he refused to accept it as inevitable. Surely much of his anguished grouping in the realm of religion was due to this moral sensitivity and reluctance to compromise. To say that James was not a stranger to gloom is, by no means, to place him among the eternal groaners. Long periods of vivacity and ebullience followed his occasional fits of depression...