Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keynote address to the delegates, professed total commitment to eliminating hunger. He said: "On May 6, I asserted to the Congress that 'the moment is at hand to put an end to hunger in America itself for all time.' Speaking for this Administration, I not only accept that responsibility, I claim the responsibility." In the same speech, however, Nixon betrayed a certain insensitivity in an anecdote that unwittingly underlined the vast gulf between the affluent and the hungry in America. Once when he went on a diet, Nixon told the meeting, "the doctor had told...
...University wishes, insofar as it can, to handle this demonstration as a purely internal University matter. At the same time, we cannot accept the continuation of this or any other obstructive demonstration." he said...
What the convention decision does show is the education that Unruh had received from Vietnam. He, unlike a great many others, learned from the war that no institution could prevent a man from having poor judgment, or making a bad decision. He learned that nothing could be accepted without question, and he showed in opposing Humphrey that he could not accept someone who did not share that view...
...Fainsod Report calls for appointment of the original students on its three new committees. Merle Fainsod, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, has refused to accept the election plan as a friendly amendment to his proposal, but has said he will not fight it. The election plan will be introduced as an amendment on the floor of the Faculty meeting...
...possible? A businesslike approach to thought considers the study of foreign language as a waste of time for the average student. What is important can be translated for them by specialists, the other 99 percent to be ignored. This view is satisfactory as long as one is willing to accept the consequences...