Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because of the limit on representation allowances, top State Department professionals cannot accept such expensive key posts as London or Paris, which traditionally go to well-heeled amateurs. Multimillionaire Publisher John Hay Whitney, Ike's last Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, annually spent more than $100,000 above his $6,000 allowance. In four years in Rome, Paper King James D. Zellerbach spent $200,000 of his personal fortune for government party-giving. Even in lesser posts, Foreign Service careermen find it hard to get by. One minister-counselor in Paris asked to be relieved...
...background statements. Said he: "The Navy's top civilian and military leaders cannot effectively fight for the kind of Navy we all want if they must be forever explaining away or defending some counter-policy utterance made by a well-intentioned but irresponsible officer." His instructions: "Recognize and accept your responsibility by insisting on being quoted by name, rank and billet...
...members of the panel seemed to accept this analysis. They did not dispute the reliability of experiments proving the existence of ESJ, although they disagreed on interpretations of the data. Rhine dismissed questions from the audience concerning the accuracy of his experiments, declaring that they would be a subject for discusison before a "fresh audience at another time." By this time, the forum had already dragged on for nearly three hours...
...Angola prison is restricted and will accept only Negro prisoners...
...sentimental appeal is about the only one the work offers. It has its delightful emotive effect and then, when the weeping subsides, one comes to grips with the work itself. I found myself asking, among many questions, why Alma can so courageously accept the news of her nephew's hatred and why the ending was so painstakingly and unconvincingly happy...