Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sept. 19]. I happened to be in Hungary up until the day of Mr. Graham's arrival and visited with a number of pastors who were being persecuted by the very people responsible for inviting Billy Graham to come. Many of the pastors feared that the West would accept their government's ploy as proof that there was true religious freedom in Hungary...
...then Carter went a significant step further. If the Palestine Liberation Organization endorsed United Nations resolutions that implicitly accept Israel's right to exist, he promised, "then we will begin to meet with them and to search for some accommodation and some reasonable approach to the Palestinian question...
...Arabs offer several powerful counterarguments. How can Jerusalem demand that the P.L.O. accept Resolution 242 when Israel is flagrantly violating it by creating new settlements in the occupied territories? The Palestinians, moreover, insist that 242 is unacceptable, since it refers to them only as refugees and not as a people with national rights...
Bloembergen said he "ended up with the chairmanship by default," adding "all the Faculty members were very reluctant to accept...
Ironically, the price that Robeson paid for that vision was his own freedom to perform and travel as a man of all nations. In the heat of McCarthyism, the State Department began denying him visas to travel abroad to accept the performing offers that continued to pour in from around the globe. On June 12, 1956, he was called up before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and badgered about his ties to the Communist Party. America gave Robeson little peace in his last decade, and he had every right to turn bitter and resentful...