Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money. It means that the U.S. will rescue a few Cubans, but not the whole Cuban people." Warned a Cuban exile living in Washington: "If the U.S. pays the ransom, the people of Cuba and all the rest of Latin America will recognize that your Government is willing to accept Communism in Cuba. This is a tragedy...
...others. But Steve McNichols is also a very stubborn fellow-and this fact has made him a lot of enemies. To carry out his program, he raised state income taxes. He feuded with his Democratic state legislature on minor matters. For example, the legislature-for idiotic reasons-refused to accept a gift from the fabulously rich (sugar and cement) Boettcher family. All the Boettchers wanted to do was turn over to the state, for use as the Gov ernor's mansion, their dreamland Denver home, with 23 furnished rooms, a magnificent tooled-leather library, a crystal chandelier that once...
With the whopping cash prize went various other rewards: a recital in Carnegie Hall, a concert in London's Royal Festival Hall, a European tour, an S. Hurok-sponsored tour of the U.S., Canada and Latin America. For a time, Pianist Votapek did not know whether he could accept any of them: he was scheduled to be drafted, did not learn until week's end that he had been deferred for a year...
...beginning of next year," Stuart-Robinson estimated, "it may be possible to determine whether we can accept membership...
...achievements were marginal, when measured against the programs offered for its consideration. So much so that it is tempting to accept the President's recent political invective as a reasonable, objective appraisal of its performance. In his recent barnstorming tour of the East, for example, he attacked Senator Capehart and his kind in these words: "Those self-appointed generals and admirals who want to send someone else's sons to war, and who consistentl voted against the instruments of peace, ought to be kept at home by the voters and replaced by someone who has some understanding of what...