Word: accepter
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...Soviets to humiliate the Reagan Administration and to glean secrets from debriefing sessions with the CIA? Either way, Yurchenko's flip-flop deeply embarrassed CIA Director William Casey and his agency. "You've either got a defector who was allowed to just walk away under circumstances I can't accept or you have a double agent planted on the U.S.," said Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. "No matter what, something is wrong...
...longtime fan of Keillor's, I have often been struck by his meld of nostalgia with bitterness that reflects small-town life in the Midwest. We accept his barbs at our memories of narrow-minded ministers, spinster schoolteachers and children who try to comprehend the town's hypocrisy, simply because Keillor has the knack of laughing with us at our human frailties. He can make us think about our Minnesota forebears without hurting too much. Keillor is all of us who have left the old ways, but who recall the shimmering mists of childhood somewhere in the snow and wheatfields...
...planner who designed the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco's Transamerica Corp. pyramid and the city of Irvine in Orange County, Calif.; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. Pereira, who tried to encourage style and balance in sprawling Southern California, once said, "We have come to accept with enthusiasm the unprofessional, unappreciative, unskillful butchery of the land that goes under the name of planning...
...women. America cannot accept a woman's superiority . . . especially tall and beautiful Filipino women who are smartly dressed like this [touching her dress], and they go even crazier if you are wearing high heels. Just because you're a woman, they think you're frivolous. Just because you can sing a little, you're not to be taken seriously...
...deliver a summary of written reports from national bishops' conferences. Each delegate will then be allotted eight minutes to speak on subjects of his choice. After the speeches, the bishops will form small groups and try to work out recommended courses of action. The Pope will be free to accept, reject or even ignore any or all of the bishops' recommendations...