Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dean Elder said yesterday he would accept the Federation as speaking for the teaching fellows who signed the petition, "but certainly not as any sole bargaining agent...
...United Lutheran Church in America abolished the denomination's long-standing restriction on remarriage of the guilty party in divorce, decided to permit Lutheran pastors to remarry any divorced person who showed repentance. Marriage is a "lifelong, indissoluble union," declared the delegates, "but God in his love does accept the sinner." The Methodist Social Creed was similarly revised to allow a minister to perform a marriage when the divorced person "is sufficiently aware of the factors leading to the failure of the previous marriage" and "sincerely preparing to make the proposed marriage truly Christian...
Operator: At this time of night, we are only allowed to accept telegrams announcing a death or someone's impending arrival...
Mortuaries & Teeny-Boppers. Though basically kin to such familiar cards as American Express and Diners Club, bank credit cards aim more at the ordinary needs of middle-income families than at travel and expense-account entertainment by executives. In a few cities, doctors, dentists and veterinarians already accept bank cards; in Chicago, several mortuaries and ambulance services have signed up, and at the city's Cheetah Twistadrome Boutique, teeny-boppers allowed access to their parents' cards can even charge their miniskirts and papier-mâché earrings...
With extension of the ground war to North Vietnam impending, the opportunity has come for us to expose the consequences of the Administration's actions before the fact, before the country has been prepared to accept this further escalation. Up to this point, as American involvement in Vietnam has been a series of incremental steps, most of which have seemed to flow logically from previous steps and to be, in themselves, rather small, the progression of increasing destruction has come to be accepted almost as a matter of course by the American people and even by the anti-war movement...