Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel: "Amin not only took the terrorists' side and allowed local Palestinians into Entebbe to help the skyjackers, he also sent a special plane to Somalia to bring in more terrorists to guard the hostages. We had more than a feeling that even if we decided to accept all the demands of the terrorists we would have no insurance that our people would be allowed to return home. From the military point of view, it was the greatest risk we ever took...
...rejecting fate, the U.S. is the ultimate incarnation of Western, Faustian man. But that posture toward the universe also has immense dangers. There is no shifting of blame, no relief in the notion that "this is the way things are." We are reluctantly willing to accept as inevitable natural disasters, but little else. Indeed, even nature must be put in its place through technology, and even death is somehow considered an affront, a failure of medicine, or of right living. Disease, poverty and other ancient afflictions simply are not accepted as part of the human condition. Perhaps rightly...
Another clue to the Howe brothers' intentions may lie in reports from London that Admiral Howe agreed to accept his command only with the understanding that he would have the right to act as a Royal Commissioner in attempting to work out a reconciliation with the Colonies. Although no details are known, military sources in London believe that Howe hopes to persuade the Continental Army to lay down its arms in exchange for new negotiations. If so, he has very little chance of succcess...
...money, but since Congress has no right to levy taxes, the money it prints is backed by nothing more than a promise to pay off in specie eventually. Many people are skeptical of that promise and rely on a wide variety of European coins for their everyday needs. They accept the proliferating dollars only at a discount...
Through most of history, the king has been thought to be an essential link in God's ordering of the universe, not necessarily divine himself but part of a divine system. Strongly influenced by modern European scientists and philosophers, as well as their own inherent practicality, Americans accept the divine system, but they believe that the ruling force in that divine chain is not a single man called king but man's own reason, as expressed through the will of the people. Whereas their ancestors of 100 or 150 years ago mistrusted man's rationality and relied...