Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Officially, Southern Baptists take their Bible straight-as the literal message of God. But in the denomination's seminaries, many teachers accept the evidence of modern scholarship that the Bible, while spiritually as valid as ever, is historically of mixed accuracy. This view is hardly shocking to 20th century Presbyterians or Episcopalians, but to the arch-conservative literalists who control the Southern Baptist Convention it is about as welcome as incense at Wednesday evening prayer meeting...
When, on the very eve of the World-Herald stockholders meeting, Kiewit tossed in a bid of $40,448,400-less than $400,000 above Newhouse's-there was not the slightest doubt that the stockholders would accept it. Some 85% of the stock is held by relatives and heirs of the paper's late publisher, Henry J. Doorly, and all of them are Kiewit's personal friends...
...will. What was so unusual about Renoir was the grace with which he bore the weight of genius. He married once and well, reigned without thunder as the head of a large, adoring household, and could always take time to speak to a stranger or persuade a beggar to accept a gift. He was, of course, frequently taken advantage of; after his paintings began to sell, chiselers took up the habit of bringing obvious Renoir forgeries to his door, knowing that he would obligingly "correct"-that is. repaint-the canvases and give them back. The painter saw through the racket...
Liberals in this country have blathered a great many easy, perfunctory mea culpas over Cuba, but will not accept real responsibility for the tragedy in the Caribean...
...acted inflexibly and impolitically in cutting the sugar quota, severing relations and sabotaging their economy; but Castro's readiness to accept Soviet support proves him a congenital communist. And now that he has (or had) missile bases, the mistakes of the past are irrelevant, anyway...