Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yale students accept Griffin's analysis; most belong in one way or another to the abnormality school. In particular, there is a nearly unanimous sense among Yale students that they are somehow cheerless and ill-balanced--the way Harvard students feel during exam period, they feel all the time. "Actually, most people are pretty grim," one senior said last week...
...F.N.L.A. and UNITA are in uneasy alliance against M.P.L.A. The three longstanding Angolan liberation movements have been so violently divided that no one has been able to form a new national government to accept independence. The Organization of African Unity, under the prod of Uganda's Idi Amin, claimed that last-minute efforts had forced a coalition, but no one believed the hollow boast...
...LEBANON'S AGONY: I can assure you that most Lebanese do not accept what has happened here. I can say 95% of the people do not want to fight one another but want to live together in one family...
...Dick picked out a 72-diamond wedding band for his beloved, as well as a platinum and multi-diamond dress ring worth close to $1 million. Liz, however, announced that she was "deeply moved by Richard's gesture of giving me the ring" but just couldn't accept such an "extravagant thought." Instead, she said, she and Burton had agreed to use the money to build a hospital in Kasane, the northern Botswana village where they were remarried last month. "The people there need a clinic badly, and I certainly don't need another ring," said Taylor...
Broad Phrasing. The outcome stunned feminists. Both states had voted quickly to ratify the federal Equal Rights Amendment in 1972, and were expected to pass interim state versions just as handily. "It's hard to believe and harder to accept," said Brooklyn Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman. New York Lieutenant Governor Mary Anne Krupsak blamed "the forces of confusion...