Word: accepter
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Because of the switch, Leverett will accept more inter-house transfers and rising sophomores than in previous years, Nelson wrote in an e-mail statement...
...been cool to refugees before. In World War II, Secretary of State Cordell Hull infamously declined to accept Jewish Holocaust refugees, adhering instead to prewar immigration quotas. Thirty years later, the U.S. watched as a crisis built ahead of the April 1975 collapse of South Vietnam, in part because 54% of Americans were against admitting Vietnamese who were fleeing the communists...
...major party nominees that would limit their fundraising and campaign expenditures (this was, however, before the Hollywood fundraising battle). While Obama has opted out of public financing, he hopes to return private donations if he wins the nomination and a compact is signed. Obama believes that he needs to accept private donations to remain competitive in the primary, but that he would like to preserve the public system, “now in danger of collapse” (his words...
...admittedly less financially well-provisioned than Harvard (but what school isn’t, really?), then I would encourage you not to be dissuaded by “Oxford Blues.” Oxford will be different, but as long as you are prepared for that reality and can accept the experience for what it is, you can have a wonderful time. Plus, Oxford really is as charming as it looks in the pictures...
These men accept the tragedy of war even as they recognize that waging it means accepting that your own opinion doesn't matter. It's the epiphany you get in John Ford's great film Fort Apache, as John Wayne sucks it up and carries out the orders of his pigheaded commanding officer, Henry Fonda, even as it leads to a massacre--and can still say years later, "He made it a command to be proud of." It's what Clint Eastwood was aiming for in his account of the doomed Japanese soldiers in Letters from Iwo Jima--except that...