Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...works two to four hours on school work every night. The entire day on Sundays is usually spent in school or at home doing school work. She not only tutors her own third-graders after school but other students from previous years as well, for which she refuses to accept compensation. Most, if not all, school vacations during the year and all but three weeks of her summer vacation are spent preparing materials for her classroom...
...candidates shrugged off the urgency of such protection. "I don't need it," said Jackson. "Not at this stage," observed Bentsen. "Perhaps later, in the heat of a campaign, I might accept them [the agents]." On the other hand, Udall's wife Ella said she certainly wanted her husband guarded...
...with a merchant seaman. Sipple is known in San Francisco's large homosexual community, and two of its leaders, the Rev. Raymond Broshears and Harvey Milk, tried to make capital for the cause of the gay image out of Sipple's act. But Sipple refused to accept the role. He also gave high marks to the Secret Service: "Those guys did a terrific job. What more could they...
Harvard used to be a purely Christian institution, he said, "now it's open to Jews but it's still Christian. Some Jews say 'it's not so bad' but I don't think any American should accept a 'good enough' situation...
...Sartre but, interestingly enough, he seems to have prised another kind of physicality out of language--the expressiveness of hands and faces. It may prove to be a revealing type of language for a man who has something to say if, as he suggests, "it is impossible to accept the fact that we would yield our bodies as we do and keep our thoughts hidden...