Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Danny Kaye has generously contributed his services for this extraordinary musical adventure," announced Berkshire Festival advertisements for the annual Boston Symphony Orchestra Pension Fund Concert. "The orchestra," it continued, "simply cannot accept any responsibility." When the old (48) Mitty-slicker appeared at Tanglewood (following a warmup children's concert with the Boston Pops back on the Charles the day before), he shook hands with his concertmaster and then with most of the rest of the 104 pieces, broke up the audience by portraying a maestro with a psychosomatic itch, employing a flyswatter baton for Flight of the Bumble...
...possible until the completion of negotiations on German reunification. To the chief Soviet threat-a separate peace treaty with East Germany, which would force Berlin-bound Allied convoys to deal with the Volkspolizei of belligerent Puppet Chief of State Walter Ulbricht-the West will firmly answer that it will accept no curbs on the indisputable Allied right of free access to Berlin...
...they must keep ahead of the growing demand for social development if they are to survive. "If development is slow, poverty itself is a hotbed where Communism or socialism might grow and prosper," says Daoud. Thus, in a curious process of reasoning, Daoud's aristocrats are willing to accept Russian aid to save themselves from Communism. "They have concluded that it is just as dangerous to themselves to let this country sit still as it is to mortgage themselves to Russia," explains one Western observer...
Trouble from the South. The act is under the sharpest attack from the protectionists since World War II. Last week 18 Senators joined to co-sponsor a bill, dropped in the hopper by New Hampshire's Republican Styles Bridges, that would oblige the President to accept every tariff-boosting recommendation put forward by the U.S. Tariff Commission. (Presidents Truman and Eisenhower rejected nearly two-thirds of the commission's proposed tariff increases.) Alarmed, New York's Republican Jacob Javits prepared a counterattack urging the Administration to take the initiative in fighting to uphold reciprocal trade...
...spread in the U.S., probably holding the expansion of Government-run medicine to the role of filling in a dignified way the needs of those who are not otherwise covered. The A.M.A. will undoubtedly continue to promote medicine of the highest standards, and it may also learn to accept changes in the doctor's economic status with more grace. At its May meeting, the dynamic California Medical Association urged A.M.A. to take the lead in efforts to make prepaid medical care available to all U.S. citizens. President Larson, in his inaugural address last week, said: "The professional spirit emphasizes...