Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says he grew up in Mashpee when it was still an Indian community. "We took advantage of [the land]," Peters says. "We learned a lot of things about our culture, about our history. We had a lot of pride. I find it very difficult to accept the fact that we've lost this thing. It makes me feel very...
...must ask ourselves if we can accept Bundy's assertion that complete disarmament is impossible, considering the broad range of leaders who now have nuclear warheads at their disposal. We can be encouraged by Bundy's intricate descriptions of previous politicians whose sane choices rectified dangerous situations, but, as he himself writes, the world's future depends upon the continuity of this sanity...
...Soviet pullback from the capital began about three weeks ago, even as Yuli Vorontsov, the Soviet Ambassador to Afghanistan and a Deputy Foreign Minister, threatened that Moscow would halt the withdrawal if the mujahedin leadership did not accept some participation by Najibullah's People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (P.D.P.A.) in a shura, or council of leaders, that would choose a new government. The mujahedin, smelling a bluff, would not budge, and the pullout from Kabul continued...
...remote village of Chinook, three hours north of Seattle. "I knew my mother would never let herself get tangled up in a mess like that," Tobias writes, but he is wrong. In fact, he is packed off to live with Dwight, and if all goes well, his mother will accept Dwight's proposal and move in too. All goes horribly. Dwight is a secretive bully who is either at his companions' feet or at their throats. With young Tobias, it is no contest. The boy is given demeaning, pointless tasks, constantly berated and subjected to drunken, careering rides up hairpin...
...tells a man grieving over three murdered bodies. "You go on with your diggin', and I'll tidy up the dead." In its terse prairie poetry, Lonesome Dove celebrates not just the old West but also the men who could witness the randomness and cruelty of life and accept...