Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TREATIES. Premier Meir is more vocal than her predecessor, Levi Eshkol, about the need for bilateral talks and a formal treaty as the only means to a lasting peace. Taking Arab intransigence into account, the U.S. is pressing Israel to accept another kind of diplomatic solution. Specifically, the U.S. proposes a declaration of a state of peace, partly inspired by one that in 1956 formalized the end of the Russo-Japanese World War II hostilities. Under such a declaration, the Middle East combatants would separately declare to the United Nations that they were at peace again...
...could not accept the international occupation of Sinai...
...women whose husbands were unfaithful to them stemmed from the threat it posed to their economic security," Dr. Bernard said. "Just a few years ago, I believed that a woman could not be casual about her own extramarital relations. Now a new kind of woman is emerging who can accept the sex-as-fun point of view without conflict." Although not necessarily endorsing the idea, she observed that married couples have become increasingly willing to accept a new kind of marriage that preserves "permanence at the expense of exclusivity...
Many church leaders nevertheless recoiled both at the tone of the document (it mentioned "armed struggle" if necessary) and at Forman's aggressive tactics in publicizing it. A few were ready to accept New York Mayor John Lindsay's offer of police protection for houses of worship. Others were obviously moved by the manifesto's charge that Negroes had been "kept in bondage and political servitude and forced to work as slaves by the military machinery and the Christian church working hand in hand." By week's end the General Board of the National Council...
...present militant young will not listen to explanations or accept excuses from us. They want results; and they want them now. The mood is widespread. And were it not for its impatience, and the lack of charity it engenders because of its imperfect understanding, who can deny that it is a good thing? The statement painted by youthful revolutionaries on a building at the London School of Economics, "We want the world, and we want it now" is only an expression of a deep-rooted concern and an insistence on change which springs from valil sources of strength in contemporary...