Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...average age of recruits: 22. Virtually all the legion's officers are French. Technically, French nationals are forbidden to enlist in the legion, but many do, pretending to be Belgians, Swiss or Canadians. Although the new legion tries hard to exclude professional thugs and officially refuses to accept men accused of major crimes, it still offers its recruits a new identity that protects them from the police...
...Diego decree, approved by a 12-to-l ratio, states that homosexual behavior is always wrong. Given that premise, the conclusion is obvious. The Presbyterians could no more ordain openly practicing homosexuals than they could accept those who continually advocate or indulge in any other life-style that the church regards as sinful. The church thus rejected a liberal policy that had been proposed by a special task force. But the new document says that homosexuality should not be singled out as any worse a sin than pride, greed or adultery, and it denounces "homophobia" (hatred and fear of homosexuals...
That ad, published last year in three Michigan college newspapers, drew more than 200 responses. Almost all were from young white women willing to accept artificial insemination and bear a child for the advertisers, a Dearborn, Mich., couple in their early...
...love with Dirt, like St. Simeon? Have you ever been in love with disease and suffering, like our nurses and philanthropists? ... I have been a common man and a poor man; and it has no romance for me." At the arms plant, with disconcerting alacrity, Barbara and Cusins accept the Undershaft inheritance, saying they plan to "make...
...principal personal unhappiness in all of this sprang from the fact that members of faculties often seemed less mature than the majority of students in their readiness to accept contrived student protests at face values and to encourage misdirected demonstrations rather than to stand firm against them...