Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the Republicans were willing to accept a quirky non-pol, Democratic voters chose the competent if bland alternative. They renominated Incumbent John Tunney, 41, who withstood a rough challenge from Tom Hayden, once the kind of radical youth leader warred upon by Hayakawa...
...opinions meticulously but writes them out in longhand. An extremely effective and popular public speaker, Blackmun has made frequent forays on the creamed chicken circuit all over the country this spring. Before tackling the court's work this week, he was off to Emory University in Georgia to accept yet another honorary degree. While the six other full-term Justices on the court have each published between ten and 13 majority opinions, Marshall has announced only seven and Blackmun...
...that state, county and city governments have wide authority to fire their employees without first granting due process protections of specific charges and hearings. Government workers, wrote Justice John Paul Stevens for the majority, have no property interest in their jobs unless state law specifically so provides. "We must accept the harsh fact that numerous individual mistakes are inevitable in the day-to-day administration of our affairs...
Another possibility is the Soviet novelist, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn was on the Board of Overseers's list of honorary degree recipients two years ago, but could not get to the United States to accept...
...Others, though, continue to be suspicious of Berlinguer, despite their admiration for his personal qualities. They remember Lenin's cynical observation about capitalists who are (or were) so naive that they would eagerly sell the rope with which they would be hung. But even some of those who accept Communist sincerity also recall the Prague Spring, and wonder how long a Communist Party in power in Italy could survive if Moscow disagreed with its programs...