Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been pressing Bobby's case. "He shot us down," grumbled one of Bobby's friends angrily. Despite the anger, it is likely that Kennedy's friends will rally round the President soon again, for they have no place else to go. And they will probably accept the wisdom of the President's picking someone who approximates his own portrait of the ideal vice-presidential candidate...
...also the question of how long American opinion will accept being told that the war is endless, or as a U.S. official in Saigon puts it: "Only a fool would pick a date when we can consider the job done. Three years? Five years? Ten? Fifteen? You make your own bets." One even suspects that in officialdom there is a tendency to take the war for granted. Some Administration policymakers are fond of pointing out that more Americans are killed in traffic accidents in Washington, D.C.. each year than in the Viet Nam war-while adding, with more logic...
...Rumania and the first East European satellite Prime Minister to pay an official visit to a NATO country. For the Rumanians, who are defiantly determined to push ahead with full-scale industrialization of their country, the visit was a gesture designed to show Khrushchev that they would neither accept the grocery-store and gas-station role he wants to assign them in Comecon (the Kremlin's Common Market), nor would they meekly bow to Moscow's bidding in the ideological battle with China...
...enormous leap forward," says the Rev. Ralph L. Roy, a leader of the reform-minded group called Methodists for Church Renewal, but "there is a long way to go." Most individual congregations remain segregated in practice, largely because of housing patterns. Moreover, few white churches are willing to accept a Negro pastor, and not many bishops seem ready yet to put their followers to that kind of test. Yet with Negroes joining the ranks of what Roy calls "the power people," that may soon change: "Where Negroes are bishops, they are the powers, the ones before whom ministers and congregations...
...gradually becomes evident that Prescott will move mountains for boys who accept his authority, but anyone who questions it is in for trouble. One wayward student locks the great man in his office, forcing him to make an undignified exit down a ladder from the window. An outraged Prescott takes his revenge by making a moral issue of the prank and ultimately hounds the boy to suicide...