Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Africans have gained in maturity in the few months since Nikita Khrushchev first banged his shoe on a U.N. desk. They recognize that nothing much can be done in the U.N. unless it has the backing of the U.S., and they have shown willingness to accept moderate measures that the U.S. can support. Furthermore, Russian influence has dropped sharply. In African eyes, Khrushchev had proved a total flop in the Congo. Even some of his best African friends, among them Egypt's Nasser (see below) and Ghana's Nkrumah, have learned that dealing with Khrushchev is frustrating...
Three days each week, Sullupucyo's peasants are permitted to work for themselves. Although Luna denies it, the peasants charge that their market is controlled by the hacienda, which buys their surplus produce at considerably less than market price. Failure to sell, as failure to accept any other hacienda rule, they say, means immediate eviction...
...straining in disbelief at what he heard from Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. If this theory is correct, it is not surprising, for the little comrade asked for the world with a ribbon around it, and blandly argued that Mr. Kennedy had no reasonable alternative but to accept his thesis...
...happens to have the same interests as the administrators. Even the minority who want to leave in three years are unlikely to have much concern for secondary education or much explicit interest in making the Freshman year more interesting. It is a less than astonishing result that most students accept Soph Standing for reasons that seem trivial or absurd to those with a broader view...
Another effect has been creation of an elite whose members not only accept Soph Standing because it is an intellectual merit badge, a series of exemptions, and a way of perpetuating prep school superiority, but also take advantage of the options in the options in order to maintain a sense of belonging to the elite group...