Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friends and former squadronmates of the 31 men lost last week in the Sea of Japan [April 25], we deeply mourn their deaths and ache with sorrow for their families. But we are angered and appalled, too, at the apparent contentment on the part of the American people to accept this loss with "cool" and "reserve," euphemisms for disinterest and apathy...
...lowly Navy wife, I don't pretend to comprehend the intricacies of foreign policy and diplomacy. I refuse to understand, however, how a nation so full of people shouting "Give a damn" and "full commitment" can accept this so calmly. I suggest that the American people start to give a damn about those men doing so for them, to the last full measure. Shape up, America, and mourn your dead. You owe them that, and so much, much more...
Feast or Famine. Now Canada's problem is finding buyers. Even the Russians, saddled with their own surplus, seem disinclined to accept the final 150 million bushels of wheat that they had ordered in 1966 as part of one of the largest grain sales ever concluded. Last month, the five major wheat producers met in Washington to shore up the sagging price floors, but the meeting adjourned without agreement...
...meaning of passive resistance. We will stay here ten days if necessary." A filibuster was on. Every now and then, somebody would jump up and shout: "Shareholders of Montedison, resist!" The meeting went on for 17 hours until 2:30 a.m. Ultimately, Valerio and the government forces had to accept a stalemate. The proposed rule change was tabled, pending a future session...
MACDONALD claimed Wolfe's style was all a sham. He called it "parajournalism--a bastard form, having it both ways, exploiting the factual authority of journalism and the atmospheric license of fiction." He could not accept Wolfe as PR man extraordinary, whose technique is to exaggerate--sometimes even to invent--fact in an effort to get at the truth. And, in certain cases, Wolfe has made notable gaffs--where the New Yorker study demanded the cruel precision of an Evelyn Waugh, Wolfe stuffed in the vitality of a Rabelais. As they have developed, however, Wolfe's essays have taken...