Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...justifiable form of civil disobedience, whose participants expressed a willingness to accept the consequences of their actions. Their protest was a vociferous expression of a political view, a symbolic gesture against a symbol of the war in Vietnam. Opposition to that war is widespread in this community, but the demonstrators' point of view does not vindicate their every action. There may be times when less popular but no less ardent advocates stage a similar demonstration, and their right too should be balanced against the rights of those with whom they interfere. Weighed in the balance Wednesday night...
There was more in almost every contract category. Holidays were increased from nine to eleven, pensions were raised. The 20,000 skilled workers, who have long beefed about having to accept the same increases as the unskilled men, got an extra 30? an hour on top of the general first-year increase. And Reuther boasted of an "historic" victory with a new guaranteed annual income provision-though it was hardly the executive-style salary plan that he had been seeking. It amounts to little more than a substantial sweetening of current unemployment benefits, under which idled workers...
...girl friend, a married actress, wants him to accept both her artistic pretensions and Stalinist politics. Even his boss, a self-made bundle of problems, wants him to deter his daughter from the path of sexual deviation...
...their political philosophies, they are by no means incompatible. "Keep in mind that Nelson is not of the liberal wing of the party," says New York's Senator Jacob Javits, who decidedly is. "He is more of a moderate Republican than he is a liberal. He could accept Reagan ideologically." Rockefeller himself cautioned friends to take the Californian seriously after his 1,000,000-vote victory last year. "When he gets engaged with the realities of being a Governor," said Rocky, "you'll find he is no extremist." A Rocky-Reagan ticket, moreover, would pull both men more...
...mount five spring offensives that drove the Chinese back beyond the 38th parallel-where international politics at last fixed a truce line. Retracing what by now must be one of the most overdiscussed personnel changes in modern history, Ridgway comes down hard on MacArthur for his refusal to accept the fact that the Chinese Communists wt:e massing for their invasion. "This wholly human failing of discounting or ignoring all unwelcome facts," writes Ridgway wryly, "seemed developed beyond the average in MacArthur's nature." He adds: "I cannot help drawing a parallel with Custer's behavior...