Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With this information in hand, the Debate Council voted unanimously last night to accept the invitation from Bishop, and Robert H. Donaldson '64, president of the Council, said he was at work arranging the debate...
...statement said that Dean Watson had informed the Debate Council Sunday night "that it did indeed have the option to go against the wishes of the Harvard Club of Dallas and accept a challenge to debate Bishop College...
...days after Lippmann's column appeared. What he wanted all along, said Pulliam, was "a forceful American policy, aimed at Castro's isolation and eventual overthrow" by partial blockade or quarantine. "The day President Kennedy proclaimed the American quarantine last October, we wrote that the Russians would accept it, while a lot of 'liberal' commentators, including Mr. Lippmann, expected the Russians to 'challenge' the American Navy or to start a nuclear war." Whooped Publisher Pulliam in conclusion: "I dare say we proved to be right, which is, perhaps, one of the reasons Mr. Lippmann...
Social attitudes which had been carefully preserved in an ugly formaldehyde of ethnic thinking are beginning to dissolve. The inevitability of social change and the necessity of giving the Negro the rights he demands are points which these moderates, whether they would want it or not, are beginning to accept. They will no doubt continue to delay the toppling of their old world until the very last, but when finally they must choose between the next step in their program for Southern progress and the last of the ante-bellum mores they will likely pick the former...
...this sense that this New Reconstruction is a part of "The Eternal flame of the Confederacy." It kindles a regional pride which once more prompts the Southerner to work for social and economic progress. In North Carolina, South Carolina, and parts of Georgia it even prompted him to accept integration because to do otherwise would blemish the regional image and hold up Southern progress...