Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Justice Department, sir. These papers. Governor, I'd like to present you with these papers." The other man, James McShane, Chief U.S. Marshal, fumblingly tried to hand Barnett a sheaf of court orders. In a sonorous drawl, Barnett said that as a matter of "policy" he could not accept any court orders. Doar, the No. 2 man in the Justice Department's civil rights division, persisted. "I want to remind you," he said, "that the Court of Appeals of the Fifth Circuit entered a temporary restraining order at 8:30 this morning enjoining you from interfering...
...must continually search for ways of enabling many more nations to join the Atlantic partnership," Brandt declared. He suggested that membership in the "club" should even be available to Communist countries who accept the conditions of memberships...
...scientists on whom the requirement was imposed. Recipients of NDEA loans and National Science Foundation fellowships were required to swear that they had no memberships in subversive organizations. The new law, finally approved by voice vote in the House yesterday, instead provides for criminal prosecution of subversives who accept the Federal funds...
...show up at John Hancock Hall, reportedly because of a "scheduling conflict." But an empty podium with no name on it was left on stage throughout the debate. Explained one Lodge aide: It would be presumptuous to put Kennedy's name on the podium since he did not accept the challenge, and presumptuous to leave it off since he never declined...
...contrasts the hard-bitten but effectual Yankee, Millhouse, with the dreamy, introspective, high-born Porgy--Taylor writes. "The need to see the predicament of the South in all its complex and tragic dignity drove Simms toward a larger view, toward myth rather than toward propaganda... As he grew to accept the idea of a separate Southern destiny and as he came to feel that an impending doom was settling over his world, his imagination turned compellingly toward the great figures of tragic literature...