Word: accept
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Four or six members of the Oxford Tiddlywinks Society (All England champions and holders of the Prince Philip Interuniversity Trophy) are planning a tour of the States from July to September 1961 (sic). We are keen to accept any challenges from your side of the Ttlantic and particularly like to play a series against the Ivy League. Any help or publicity you can give us would be much appreciated. Yours faithfully, Elizabeth King (Hon. Sec. O.U.T.S.) St. Hugh's College, Oxford
...told Adzhubei, "is the effort by the Soviet Union to communize. in a sense, the entire world. If the people of any country choose to follow a Communist system in a free election, after a fair opportunity for a number of views to be presented, the United States would accept that. What we object to is the attempt to impose Communism by force, or a situation where once a people may have fallen under Communism, the Communists do not give them a fair opportunity to make another choice...
...Bowles's hide. "JFK would do far better by simply giving the grand and final boot to Administration misfits, beginning with Bowles." Observed the Charlotte, N.C., Observer: "The fellow with the lopsided grin is no longer welcome at the President's table, but he may continue to accept the crumbs." The Detroit Free Press refused to accept the official line that Bowles had not been downgraded, said flatly that "Bowles was fired because he didn't belong and wouldn't quit"; the Chicago Daily News called him "a congenital chatterbox" and a "moony gabbler." Sneered...
...Hooft fully understands their position: "I know that to bring in the Russian church is to bring in new problems. It will be more difficult to take those positions on international questions which we have taken in the past. We believe, however, that we simply have to accept that difficulty and seek to overcome...
...Hooft perhaps the most brilliant single performance of his life-an illuminating example of how creeds are written. It took place in a Leningrad hotel, where he was breakfasting with an Orthodox delegation. At the time the constitutional definition of the World Council was: "A fellowship of churches which accept our Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour." The Russians complained that this definition overlooked the trinitarian basis of Christianity prized by Orthodox churches...