Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loneliness, Janet Frame's story occasionally bogs down in unintelligibility, often seems tainted by abnormal morbidity. But as in her earlier books (Owls Do Cry, Faces in the Water), she writes with power and makes the dismal fumblings of her creatures seem touching, compels the reader finally to accept as looming mountains the emotional molehills that are the topography of starved lives. Toby sustains a whole lifetime upon one moment of triumph: the time when his grammar school teacher read his paper on "The Lost Tribe" to the class. Awakened by the kiss, Zoe's womanly urge...
...naive to hope that after encouraging Communist bloc aid, both military and economic, for over two years, and after ignoring specific United States warnings about military activity, the Castro government will suddenly accept an American ultimatum to get rid of the Russians...
...decision to accept Federal money under the National Defense Education. Act, Yale stands alone among the colleges and universities which withdrew from the program to protest a provision of the Act requiring all student applicants to disclaim belief in any subversive organization...
Swarthmore College is showing even greater caution and reactivating a special committee of faculty members, students and trustees to study the amended Act. The same committee recommended in 1958 that Swarthmore refuse, on the basis of the disclaimer affidavit, to accept NDEA loans...
...Harvard spokesman said yesterday that University originally applied for about $700,000 in 1958, but scaled down the demands in recent years because Harvard did not intend to accept the money while the disclaimer affidavit existed. Thus last spring. Harvard's application for the 1962-63 academic year was only around...