Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should be ready to accept a treaty banning above ground tests and underground tests which exceed a threshold detectable by existing systems. It follows that the U.S. should be willing to rely on existing detection systems which are admittedly capable of placing any Soviet atmospheric tests, and large underground blasts...
...Northern Rhodesia for its funds. Little Nyasaland, largely black and with a black majority already in its local legislature, wants to secede. As for Southern Rhodesia, tightly held by 215,000 whites (in a population of 2,860,000), it seems determined to go it alone rather than accept black federal rule...
...desperately honest. In the plays, it springs intuitively from the playwright's unconscious. Says Williams: "There is a horror in things, a horror at heart of the meaninglessness of existence. Some people cling to a certain philosophy that is handed down to them and which they accept. Life has a meaning if you're bucking for heaven. But if heaven is a fantasy, we are in this jungle with whatever we can work out for ourselves. It seems to me that the cards are stacked against us. The only victory is how we take...
...East right to blast a lad whose banging around at night woke him up? Consensus: No. In keeping with school spirit was the problem of children who kept hurtling about the house on bicycles, alarming pedestrians. When the practice was voted down, one nine-year-old refused to accept the decision. But he did compromise: he now rides only two days a week, which East regards as splendid evidence of personality development...
This sort of remark infuriates Mrs. Rhoda Kellogg, whose 35 years as a student and collector of children's art have convinced her that childhood's first great defeat often occurs at that moment. Giving "meaning" to the scribbles forces the child to accept a copycat view? of the world, she thinks. Sooner or later, it will cost him his natural freedom of expression. But "adults feel that anything that belongs to the child is no good," says Mrs. Kellogg. "If there's one thing they have to do, it's get rid of childhood...