Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richardson tended the twines in the maskless era of hockey, when goalie's mugs often resembled Goodrich radials. "I think that all goalies are a special breed who readily accept the challenges and hazards of the trade, and pray for a good set of defensemen," the 1953 Angier Trophy (Most Improved Player) winner commented...
...this woman than Simone's lifetime of asceticism was Weil's noble yet awful and haunting death. The end came in forced war-time exile from France, when Simone Weil, frail since childhood and now suffering from tuberculosis, chose to starve herself to death in British hospitals rather than accept more food than prisoners of war were offered inside occupied France. With what one doctor later called "total lucidity of mind" and a saintly air of peaceful self-possession, Weil drove herself to the point where her body could no longer take in enough food to sustain life. Apologizing...
...they edged forward, Catholic officials could point to one odd justification for integration provided by the government itself. At the same time that Cape Administrator Louis Munnik was threatening to close two integrated Catholic schools last week, he ordered two white state schools to accept six black students. Reason: the six happened to be children of the consul from Transkei, one of the black "homelands" to which South Africa granted independence but which no other nation recognizes. Foreign black diplomats are exempted from South Africa's racial system, and in view of such exemptions, argues Father Scholten, "we should...
...that many of the major Protestant churches accept women as ministers, expectations have been aroused that the Roman Catholic Church might also abandon its tradition of an exclusively male priesthood. Pope Paul VI chilled those hopes in 1975 when he declared that such a change would not be "in accordance with God's plan for his church." Nonetheless, delegations of U.S. Catholic priests, nuns and laity meeting in Detroit last October appealed publicly for the ordination of women priests. Last week the Vatican formally declared that no matter what other churches may do, the Roman Catholic Church "does...
...Many of these workers testified that they did not accept the graveyard shift jobs because they lived alone in Watertown and Someville, did not drive and would have to have used mass transit, and were afraid of coming in and out of Harvard Square in the middle of the night," Kuntz said...