Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were willing to accept the luck of the draw. While a few talked of flight to Canada and some of seeking exemptions on physical or psychological grounds, most searched for alternatives to the draft. A few planned to seek conscientious-objector status; some expected to enlist in a reserve or National Guard unit. Others, including David Eisenhower, are considering going into teaching, which can bring a draft deferment, to postpone their service until the war is over. A few, whose birthdays fall in the uncertain middle third, are even considering playing a numbers game with their futures. They feel that...
...Paint. Beyond racial harangues (including a shrill appearance by Black Manifesto Author James Forman), the more than 500 delegates heard a long, high-pitched debate on the war and the draft. After the assembly decided not to "accept custody" of the draft card of a 20-year-old delegate, Episcopal Priest Dick York of the Berkeley Free Church told the council that it had blood on its hands. York walked along the officers' table, splashing red paint on their papers. Next day, however, delegates voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution defending critics of the Viet...
Today's consumer is better educated than his forebears and thus less willing to accept the exaggerated salesmanship, misleading advertising, shoddy goods and even bits of deceit that buyers once considered natural hazards of commerce. He is justifiably confused by product guarantees written in incomprehensible legalese, by conflicting claims
...University wishes, insofar as it can to handle this demonstration as a purely internal University matter. At the same time, we cannot accept the continuation of this or any other obstructive demonstration." he said...
...when confronted with the demands of the past year. The harsh new issues facing the University and the sharp divisions they created among the Faculty made it imperative for that body to begin groping for a new style of leadership-a style better equipped to recognize political realities to accept them, and to mediate them without endangering the essential scholarly functions of a university...