Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...away to someone claiming to be his mother without any proof." When both sides went into court over Ben, Mrs. Nelson decided, "If he reacted to her in a loving way, if he knew her and ran to her, we would know she was someone whom he could accept and love. But Ben was in court with us the entire day, and when she walked in and called his name, he looked up, then went right back to his coloring." Nonetheless, a district court in Iowa has ruled that the Nelsons must give the boy up; they are appealing...
...STRUGGLE. Just a year ago people were saying that this country was ungovernable. It was never true. Trade unions have a great understanding of the employers' difficulties and the employers of what is possible for the unions. It is a great tribute that people are apparently willing to accept a genuine cut in their standard of living for the second year in succession. But the recent wage settlement is only one part of it; we've won the battle, but we haven...
Nowhere is the division more spectacular than on the issue of birth control. In 1968 Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical Humanae vitae, explicitly telling Catholics they were forbidden to use artificial methods of contraception. In 1974 a study of American Catholics showed that fully 83% did not accept such teaching. Moreover, attendance at weekly Mass dropped from 71% in 1963 to 50% in 1974; monthly confession, from...
...Rhodesian government in an untenable position. Prime Minister Ian Smith's stubborn refusal to cooperate in a raid transition to black majority rule has compelled neighboring black governments to support a full-scale guerilla war. Even such pro-Western leaders as Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda expressed their willingness to accept Soviet and Cuban aid to toppling the Smith regime...
Inflation continues to be a formidable threat to the European comeback, but even the price front showed promising news last week. Leaders of Britain's powerful unions tentatively agreed with the government to accept stringent new voluntary wage controls, to take effect...