Word: accept
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...Religions, is the son of a Devonshire sailor; he was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1932, earned his doctorate in divinity while campaigning with Britain's First Army in North Africa during World War II. In 1951, he gave up a career as an army officer to accept his present post as professor of comparative religion at the University of Manchester, and presented a concise version of Man and His Destiny in the Wilde Lectures on Natural and Comparative Religion at Oxford between...
Melting Makeup. The sisters readily accept their own advice. Neither drinks or smokes, and they somehow manage to attract guests to their Hollywood parties although they serve nothing stronger than Coca-Cola. They work tirelessly on their columns, books and television appearances and still find time to give their mother an occasional tip for her Beauty in Orbit column, which is carried by 40 newspapers...
After several months of political pondering. Democratic Governor "Pat" Brown decided to accept Republican Dick Nixon's challenge to a statewide TV debate. Since then, their seconds have been haggling bitterly about details. Nixon wanted four debates, Brown only one; they compromised on two, but on nothing else. Brown wants a format similar to that used in the Nixon-Kennedy debates, in which each man spoke for a few minutes, then answered questions put by a panel of newsmen. Nixon wants a straight head-on debate. Brown wants to discuss only California issues; Nixon wants no limitation on subject...
...group of pro-West parishioners at St. Mark's refused to accept his resignation as final. They asked Pike for permission to leave St. Mark's and set up a new parish with West as rector. When the bishop refused, more than 100 members of the Parish-most of them Episcopalian conservatives who had little use for Pike's doctrinal views-organized a new congregation outside Episcopal jurisdiction and asked West to come back as rector. West announced his intention of giving up Episcopal orders, and accepted the call...
Christian Churches, a federation of 88 fundamentalist churches, denounced the ecumenicism of the World Council of Churches, and voted not to accept an invitation to the Vatican Council even if one was offered...