Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...straight-A student editor of Talon, who had simply picked Marx's maxim out of Bartlett's Familiar (but not everywhere) Quotations. "If anyone other than Marx had said it," she remarked sensibly, "there wouldn't have been any excitement." Then Jessica went off to accept a long-scheduled honor: a citizenship award from the Memphis branch of the D.A.R...
...market plunge might be a harbinger of recession, if not the cause of one, the majority of economists echoed the line taken by President Kennedy last week: the economy is still basically sound, and Wall Street is simply out of step with it. "It's hard to accept the view that investors in the market are better forecasters than the economists who make it a fulltime business and still don't always do so well at it," says the University of Chicago's Milton Friedman. Pointing to such expansionary factors as the brisk heavy-construction market...
...South Carolina's non-TV teachers are "doing their damnedest to make sure TV doesn't replace them," says one official. "What they didn't know before TV arrived, they find out in a hurry." Most of them accept the efficacy of TV teaching. The screen rivets students, encourages them to take notes, and makes them worry if they miss a lesson...
...million more than they had cost the chain-and a contract to keep on operating them. Chinn Ho stood to do almost as well: besides $10.2 million in cash, he was promised contracts to develop the land he was selling. Said Ho: "We had no alternative but to accept-and nothing to lose." The Good of the Service. Deadline date for the big deal...
Novelist Stone's merry misery is touching and frequently funny, but it is also disquieting in a way that the author cannot have intended. The trouble is that, wrongly or not, today's readers are not schooled to accept the gift of charm graciously. Charm seems false, because reality-so runs the sophisticated dictum -is unpleasant. Actually, it is a matter of distance from the subject: from afar the faces of the poor (or of the rich) have no features; at a middle distance, they can be charmingly picaresque; at close quarters their skin is seamed with dirt...