Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While we will gratefully accept the aid given to us by our friends, we will not do it at the cost of mortgaging our pacifically won freedom. We refuse to be a party to the Kennedy-Khrushchev game of checkers...
...nation given up the cold war initiative seized so recently? Was a Communist doublecross in the making? Washington "guidance" veered between optimism and pessimism, but the picture that emerged was one that hardly indicated a quick settlement on terms that the U.S. could accept...
Kreyssig's first problem was to find an Israeli community that would accept his missionaries. Only ten of the nation's 275 kibbutzim agreed to the idea, and even then the first team that went out to a Negev collective last year found it hard to make friends. The second group, twelve young Germans installed at Kibbutz Ba-han on the Jordan frontier, has had an easier time. Each morning they rise at 5:30 a.m. and head for their assigned chores. Some work on tractors, others in cauliflower gardens or the citrus orchards. Admits a leader...
Last week Choi's wife suddenly dropped the charges, agreed to accept their four children and a lump sum of $31,000 in alimony. Wan and unsmiling, the lovers emerged from prison. Kim hurried off to a hospital, complaining of "low blood pressure." Choi read an Orientally opaque statement saying the two would "now reconsider relations." In the meantime, because Korean stars are paid only $2,500 a film for their assembly-line endeavors, both are planning to sell their houses so that they can pay off Mrs. Choi...
...very subtle way of going about things. I suspect that, had he wished, the author could have written his essay to convince me that Eddington's philosophical misapprehensions were minor flaws in a cosmic vision. Instead he presents a nicely balanced study and then asks us to accept just half...