Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court, Ray appeared to accept Fore man's advice, but he did not take long to change his mind. "He told me he was sorry he had pleaded guilty," Shelby County Sheriff William N. Morris Jr. said last week. Morris had spoken to Ray on the morning after he was sen tenced to a 99-year term in the state penitentiary in Nashville. Ray told...
...would have to change its name in order to comply with the South Vietnamese constitution. Thieu has spoken derisively of such a proposal, though he has not actually ruled it out. Indeed, there is little doubt that, in one form or another, he must some day accept its principal component: the participation of the N.L.F. in Saigon's political processes. Certainly his own outline for an end to the war?for Hanoi to "acknowledge its aggression against South Viet Nam and accept to end that aggression"?seems an unlikely outcome. The Communists have done too well...
...problem is not protest as such. In some ways, it can be considered encouraging that more and more young Americans refuse to accept any disparity between U.S. ideals and U.S. realities. There is something gallant about a generation that questions a doubtful war, racial injustice, poverty amid plenty and ecological destruction. But the danger is that the reckless invocations of revolution and violence will defeat the very reforms that the most thoughtful of the protesters desire...
...project would need ten years to bear any fruit at all; pessimists seemed to think it was impossible. Last week, as the Consultation on Church Union met for the eighth time in Atlanta to carry forward Blake's pioneering proposal, it appeared that the participants were willing to accept an old military maxim: the impossible takes a little longer...
...University official, whom Jack had treated, tried to make him accept a gift of $50. After many attempts, Jack told the man: "If you don't stop this, I'll have you committed...