Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan last week, speaking to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Britain's Scientist-Novelist Sir Charles Percy Snow warned that time was short and the world faced an "either-or" situation: the "either" is that "we accept a restriction on nuclear armaments. This course involves obvious risks. The 'or' is not a risk but a certainty...
...Virginian myself, whose mother came from a long line of Virginians and whose mother and father were married in the present City of Norfolk, I accept as a great honor the invitation of the city to place my papers, decorations and other mementos of my military service in its perpetual care and keeping." Thus last week did General of the Army Douglas MacArthur notify the birthplace of his mother that he was consigning his vast memorabilia to its custody; he also requested that he and his wife be buried in Norfolk. The city has big plans for MacArthur. It will...
...Tibet. But if India moves too slowly, Red propagandists will exploit the existence of slavery in democratic India. By and large, said Nehru, slaves in NEFA are treated like one of the family. Some have been captured in tribal wars, but others come from within the same tribe and accept slavery to discharge a family debt, or to receive protection from a powerful master, or because they have committed a tribal crime and cannot pay the fine demanded...
With typical Gallic acuity, a Paris newspaper recently tipped its readers off to the fact that the fastest-rising U.S. teen-age singing star is in reality a 32-year-old midget. U.S. editors prefer to accept the claims of her pressagent that Songstress Brenda Lee is barely 16 years old and that her growth pattern is entirely normal (she now stands 4 ft. 11½| in.). The difference of opinion is understandable, for Brenda peers at the world through mascaraed eyes of ageless innocence while crooning her mating songs in a voice that is part whisky, part Negroid...
...course in competition with young men already in the swing of studying. Only one Roman Catholic seminary specializes in training older men-Rome's Beda College, which last year graduated 14 men (one American) at an average age of 46. Beda recently announced that it could no longer accept Americans because of overcrowding, and last week Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing announced that the second such seminary would be built in his archdiocese...