Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swore he would fight to the death against the French, and he cut off the tip of his forefinger to seal his oath. At 21, he switched, began fighting the Viet Minh. The Geneva conference gave half of Indo-China to the Viet Minh, but Ba Cut refused to accept the decision, swore he would never cut his hair until Viet Nam was reunited...
...also refused to accept the authority of the fledgling South Viet Nam government of Ngo Dinh Diem. Nine months ago Diem ordered two infantry divisions against Ba Cut and his feudal domain. Slowly, Diem's troops dispersed Ba Cut's power. By January, Ba Cut's forces had been reduced to a straggling band roaming from village to village just ahead of its pursuers...
...measure of psychiatry's maturity as well as its penetration that religion, slowly and within stoutly defined limits, has come to accept and even to cooperate with it. Sigmund Freud, an atheist, found no place in his vision of the riddle of man for the "mass obsessional neurosis" called religion, except for its occasional help as an opiate to stifle a neurosis. For all his own scruples, he deplored society's religion-based concept of morality, saw the root of modern man's problems in the concept...
Miss Herlitz replied that the greatest stumbling block to successful negotiation is the Arab nations' refusal to "accept Israel as a fact." She treated Sayegh's statement as evidence that the Arabs continually wish to return to a state of affairs which no longer exists...
...violations, and Zionist proposals for expansion. Miss Herlitz asserted that Israel was satisfied with her present territory and would never try to expand. She asked the Arabs to "take the chip off their shoulder" and approach negotiation with a more positive attitude. Sayegh responded that his country could not accept happenings as "accomplished facts regardless of their method of accomplishment...