Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prizewinners last spring, dubbed by Pearson "The President's Easter Egghead Roll." "I believe we can get back on a very friendly and cooperative basis without difficulty," Pearson says. "I know our relations are going to be complicated and at times difficult. The thing that matters is to accept our responsibilities...
Subs, Please. Was this progress? Skeptics noted that France's government seemed more inclined to talk cooperation than to practice it. After indicating that they might honor a 15-month-old agreement to accept U.S.-controlled warheads for its German-based F-100 fighter-bombers, the French brusquely denied that they had any present plans "concerning the use of these planes within NATO." Nothing daunted, U.S. officials in Paris leaked wishful reports that France's nuclear force de frappe is badly behind schedule and beset with ever-mounting technical and financial problems. De Gaulle, it was hinted...
...crackdown on Evtushenko and other maverick intellectuals. The official organ of the Moscow Writers Union, Literaturnaya Rossiya, backed a reader's suggestion that Evtushenko be thrown out of the union-a move that would reduce the high-living poet to poverty, since state publishing houses would no longer accept his work. Even Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin joined the wolf pack snarling at Evtushenko's heels. Following up earlier attacks on the poet for daring to evade Soviet censorship by publishing his autobiography in France, Gagarin said the act demonstrated "an unforgivable lack of responsibility...
...gait was unhurried, the paunch impressive as a Roman emperor's, the head massive as a Percheron's. Producer Sam Spiegel, to the strains of the theme music from Lawrence of Arabia, was advancing down the aisle of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to accept the Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year...
...either Harvard or M.I.T. now refused to accept the full taxation policy, they could appeal to the Appellate Tax Board and to County Courts, Gibson said...