Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roland Flamini spent the week at West Point, where they were given carte blanche to ask questions. "I had forgotten how carefully scrubbed and polite cadets are," said Tompkins, an Army staff sergeant in the South Pacific in W.W. II. Concluded Flamini: "Some may find it hard to accept West Point's honor code as anything more than elitist mumbo jumbo -but there is something to the place." That "something" and the scandal's scope are the story: edited by Ronald Kriss, an ex-Army specialist third class; written by James Atwater, ex-Korean War lieutenant; and researched...
...statement Brimmer added that although he was leaving the academic community for now, he would continue to accept invitations to lecture at colleges and universities and perform public service oriented work...
...input, of course; even now he is no Daley puppet. Stevenson is known to lean toward the Humphrey-Muskie wing of the party (Daley, on the other hand, dislikes Humphrey). Additionally, there is some reason to believe Stevenson might not yearn to be vice-president. But providing he would accept, it is conceivable Daley might try to pull the whole thing...
Like her American counterpart, Rippon was brought in to help raise the ratings of her network's prime-time news. The government-chartered BBC does not accept advertising, but does depend on ratings to justify the ever-rising license fees (currently $32.75 a year for a color set) that pay most of BBC'S bills. The network claims that 1.5 million more Britons watch its evening news than view that of its rival, the commercial Independent Television Authority. But audience measurement is an unrefined science in Britain, and the ITV'S news had long been considered...
...perfect, soft Brie"). But his prose, often better than serviceable, is sometimes very cutting indeed. (The political career of a Democratic Vice President is summed up as "a lackluster, snail creep to seniority.") By the time the reader gets to President No. 3, Richard Monckton, he is meant to accept Ehrlichman's jungle view of life in the nation's capital. U.S. Presidents generally, one is encouraged to assume, should be placed only a few points to the right of pit vipers on the lovability scale. In such a context, Richard Monckton's somber and tormented meanness...