Word: acceptible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helped shape a country and a world in your own quiet way. You have set a standard for our family and for each of us as individuals. Let me say to you that we are strong and we are ready to carry that standard forward; that we know and accept our responsibility. Rest in peace. You have blessed and touched this world in good ways that will last forever...
After all sifting of reasons, however, it is difficult for Americans to know what to do emotionally with Richard Nixon. A compassionate and even sentimental people with a kind of friendly compulsion to forgive, they would be disposed to accept Nixon, to leave the past for historians to sort out. But some token of repentance seems to be an informal condition for that. Nixon, in his soft avowal during the Frost interviews that "I let the American people down" and some gentle self-accusations in his memoirs, appears to have traveled as far as he psychologically can toward contrition...
...Ambassador to Lebanon Richard Parker interceded with Damascus, asking the Syrians to accept Sarkis' demands that: 1) all major factions submit to his authority, and 2) the Syrians ease their pressure and give him time to maneuver...
...week's end Assad called Sarkis and promised him that he was ready to accept Sarkis' conditions. There was no immediate response from the Christian factions, but Sarkis reluctantly stayed on for the time being at least...
...sheltered lives with the lures of speed, passion and freedom. Springsteen is in fact one of the most attractive and believable outsider person as in rock. But when he tries to assume the stance of someone caught inside, in the work-a-day world, it's hard either to accept or be interested in it. Springsteen is a wonderful painter of the social landscape, but as a social critic he is standing at the wrong easel...