Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Please accept our regard for your report on San Francisco crime...
...when many politicians expected him to fight Nixon for the nomination, he made a "definite and final" announcement that "I am not, and shall not be, a candidate for the nomination for the presidency." And he added: "Quite obviously, I shall not at any time entertain any thought of accepting nomination to the vice-presidency." The Treaty of Fifth Avenue. That should have been that. But Rocky made himself look foolish and indecisive by refusing to give up hope. After the U-2 incident and the breakup of the Paris summit conference, he thought he saw another chance, announced that...
...newspapers, murmuring "hor rible, horrible, horrible." Sunday evening church services became funeral rites. Five miles from downtown Atlanta, in the Buckhead section where most of the vic tims had lived, friends and relatives dropped a protective curtain of silence around the mourning families, answered the phones, manned the doors, accept ed the flowers. The silver trays on foy er tables whitened with visiting cards and notes...
...only has Moscow shown that it cannot readily afford both bombs and butter; it can ill afford to buy loyalty abroad. The Communists supply only 5% of the underdeveloped nations' industrial imports, accept an equally small percentage of exports in return; 95% of these countries' trade is with the West. As for Soviet foreign aid, paper promises of $6.5 billion last year contrasted sharply with the $305 million in goods and credits that, actually were delivered...
...athlete, like the businessman, has evolved an image that a large nucleus of aspiring undergraduates and section men find fashionable to accept, avoid, and ridicule. They break down the Harvard community into "intellectuals" and "jocks"--heroes and villians--and force the athlete into a corner where he must ultimately explain himself...