Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of the parents, particularly young couples whose deformed child was their first, did not even want to accept their babies. Others, who had larger families, argued that to keep their thalidomide child at home would be too great a strain on their other children. A few even went so far as to say that distribution of the drug had been the government's fault; therefore it was also the government's responsibility to provide for the children. Then, last year, Dr. Gustav Hauberg, an energetic orthopedist from the state of Lower Saxony, produced a comprehensive plan...
...will be put to its 1964 convention, the American Lutheran Church (2,400,000 members) agreed that "to levy upon churches charges for municipal services such as water, sewage, police and fire protection" is "consistent with sound public policy. We believe also that the churches should be willing to accept equitable taxation of parsonages and other dwellings. Churches conducting businesses not essential to their religious ministry ought to be subject to tax laws equally applicable to those governing profit-seeking individuals and corporations...
...crucial vote in the House came on a motion to accept the Ways and Means Committee's suggestion that the bill be killed. The House voted down the motion 122-103, and passed the bill by voice vote shortly afterwards...
Reports in Washington Wednesday said that Kennan would resign his present position as U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia by this summer to accept the University's offer to the prestigious professorship...
...screening of volunteers is one of the most troublesome aspects of the HUT program. Frequently a school system will accept student volunteers only on a tentative basis, ready to "fire" them on a moment's notice. Meeting this problem has consistently been a worry to PBH, since a single bad experience may build serious pressures for PBH to drop its program in that area...