Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans had known back in 1961 that the war would last so long and be so costly in U.S. lives and funds, they would have opposed U.S. involvement overwhelmingly-63% to 26%. Only 9% would accept a settlement of the war that meant an outright Communist takeover of South Viet Nam either immediately or in three to five years' time. But twice that number, 18%, would agree to ending the war by setting up a coalition government including Communists, even if such a settlement left the Viet Cong in position to dominate South Viet Nam eventually. More broadly...
...revolt gained ominous momentum when the labor unions, restive at static wages and rising prices, joined the students. It seemed, during those weeks of the barricades, that De Gaulle might be deposed while absent from the country. In settling the insurrection and the general strike, the government had to accept sizable wage increases; all of this had caused panic among the middle classes, and francs were speedily converted to gold or other currencies-most often West German marks. The fabled gold reserves were depleted in defending the franc...
Representatives in the state DPW also denied any knowledge of a public hearing on Route 2, which Gray said is one of the conditions Cambridge must accept in return for favorable action on the housing projects...
...important, then it would not be necessary to create the special kind of worker mentality that our schools presently turn out. Alienation appears to be a feature of capitalist industrialism (or in the case of the USSR, statecapitalist industrialism) rather than of industrialism in general. We should not accept such things as fixed...
...graduation. The last movement of any force to protest the injustice of the administration was made by the Seniors at this time. They voted to refuse their diplomas and their parts in Commencement. But when the administration threatened never to give them their degrees if they chose not to accept them then, they capitulated. The last protest fell...