Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diplomacy, is a canny attorney who is not given to ill-considered statements. "We are not wedded to any government in Saigon," he said in a Washington press conference. He added that "the only principle to which the Administration is wedded is free choice," suggesting that the U.S. could accept any government that resulted from free elections in South Viet Nam; he did not insist that Thieu be included...
...World War II peacetime Army. While that seems unlikely, the President at least put himself and his Administration on the record. Finally, looking abroad, Nixon wanted to convince Hanoi, Peking, Moscow and the Viet Cong that the U.S. has not been so enfeebled by doubt that it will accept any terms in the Paris negotiations in order to get out of Viet Nam. There was no mistaking the President's hard line; it remains to be seen whether he succeeded in impressing it upon the Communists...
Some of Safeguard's most adamant opponents accept the need for continuing research and development in the field of missile defense. What they oppose is a binding decision this year - and the appropriations supporting it - to manufacture and deploy the missiles. Thus one possible way out of the virtual deadlock in the Senate is to go ahead with the basic program while deferring judgment on actual emplacement of the missiles. Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke began circulating a written proposal to this effect three weeks ago. Last week Republican Whip Hugh Scott said in a press conference that...
...occasions, a person who was voted a degree but died before it was conferred was indirectly honored at Commencement when the President of the University announced that he would have gotten a degree had he been alive to accept...
Lawyers for the Corporation said they would formally ask the Cambridge courts to drop criminal charges against demonstrators arrested in University Hall, but court spokesmen said that the trial judge would have power to accept or reject the request. Cambridge officials said they would urge the court not to drop the charges...