Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were to be considered, main problems would be to determine what would be "a good cause" for moving, and where the student would live. These, however, he felt were "ducking and dodging" the fact that "Harvard has got to face this some time: at some point they just cannot accept any more people; we're badly overloaded for the equipment now in the Houses...
...Boston Defenders decides that an indigent prisoner has a case worth handling, one of its lawyers will accept it. The Harvard student will act as the attorney's assistant in investigating and trying the case. Unlike students in the civil organization, the Harvard Defenders can only go to the courts as consultants to Boston practicing lawyers, who plead the cases...
...area of the South, "while popular will is not going to bring integration," it can be imposed by Southern leaders. He credited a hard-working, moderate group with effecting the peaceful integration in Louisville. The majority of the people there were against integration but were convinced to accept it, Pearce said. The journalist said that there is no large scale integration because the Negroes are "economically districted" into separate neighborhoods...
Before Hoffa would accept the crown, he insisted that the Teamsters run through a charade designed to show that the Teamsters believe in fair play. Even the burliest of the delegates knew that the convention stood in the grim glare of public opinion, thanks to disclosures of Teamster corruption by John McClellan's Senate labor-rackets committee. With supreme cynicism, Jimmy and his boys pretended to clean their fingernails...
...going to have any lasting value and interest, he must have something to say. He must have had to think during the course of his life. If a person is exposed to the values of conflicting cultures, he is forced to reexamine his ideas and decide either to reject, accept, or modify his previous values. If one rejects, there is a need to justify one's actions, often in writing. If one accepts the values of the original society, there is still a need to justify, having been exposed to conflicting values. Pound, Fisher, and DeVoto rejected Mormon values...