Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action had been even more ill-judged than was at first realized. Not only had he received $20,000 from Louis Wolfson's foundation in 1966-not giving it back until eleven months later, after Wolfson had been indicted for defrauding stockholders-but he had also agreed to accept $20,000 a year for life. The payments were to go to his wife Carolyn, also a lawyer, if she survived him. The services he or his widow were to perform were spelled out only vaguely in his case. He had intended, he told Warren, to "help shape" the program...
...measured and exhibited a subtle timing that Frenchmen appreciated. As the leader of the Senate, Poher automatically became the interim President of France. Last week he promised to separate as much as possible the Acting President from the candidate. He swore to take part in no meetings and to accept no more official invitations that might give him an advantage over the other candidates-with the single exception of appearing at the Cup of France soccer final, thus reviving a presidential tradition that De Gaulle had neglected in recent years. He also promised to tape his election speeches...
...Winston Churchill journeyed to the small Missouri town of Fulton to accept an honorary degree from little-known Westminster College. His acceptance speech made Fulton a historic site. "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic," Churchill said, "an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." To combat the forces that lurked behind it, he proposed a "fraternal association" between the U.S. and Great Britain...
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...temptation is therefore considerable for women to work less hard than men of similar age and ability, and to accept graciously the admiration offered for trying. This forces the Radcliffe Institute and women in general to operate with a level of self-criticism not ordinarily required of men. Ruth Hubbard (Mrs. George Wald) Research Associate and Lecturer in Biology...