Word: accept
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...Assam in the current military operation. Even if they merely occupied the area which they now claim, they would be in a position, at any time, to resume their advance. There is no doubt why, aside from any questions of the legality of the McMahon Line, India refuses to accept Chinese claims in this area...
...Chinese attack in the east was intended to divert Indian attention from Ladakh, it has failed miserably. The threat to Assam has focused Indian attention on its border problems with China and, if anything, increased the Indians' determination not to accept Chinese occupation of Ladakh. On the other hand, the attacks may be designed to slow up Indian economic development or to demonstrate that China, in comparison with Russia, is an aggressive fighter for socialism. Finally, the Chinese may, indeed hope to annex Assam. Chou's latest message to Nehru, however, which seems to offer a Chinese withdrawal...
With regret, we review the Massachusetts campaign and find no reason to believe Ted Kennedy will outgrow his restrictive opportunism. A few "right votes" in the Senate will not justify the abuses he has already perpetrated. To believe that they will is, in effect, to accept Teddy's campaign as a legitimate exercise in democracy. We cannot, and thus it is with the severest pessimism that we now regard his ascendancy...
There are many arguments against the kind of general education the Redbook proposed. It can be argued that Harvard should accept the role of preparing students for graduate school and should train them as scholars, because any other role would be unrealistic, given the intellectual level of the student body and the demands of an increasingly specialized society...
...thing that characterized him, both in his studies and his outside activities, was an enormous romanticism and idealism. In college he began a search for values which he continues today. He refused to accept the sort of life which is so easy for a prep-school boy with a socially prominent name to fall into here, he was never a snob or a clubbie, and spent little of his time at his club (the Fly) or with a Groton clique...