Word: accepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said Richard Nixon to his party workers during the campaign. So he said again when he appeared before his followers to accept and savor his victory. Now he could forget the defeats, both the hairbreadth miss of 1960 and the humiliating rebuff of 1962. Now he could put behind him the fear that maybe he was, after all, a born loser. Now he could relish the fruits of unremitting labor for his party, of countless fund-raising dinners and victory banquets and formula speeches in remote towns. Now he could demonstrate to the nation-and perhaps to himself- just what...
...there's one thing the American people don't want, it's what they've got." Ironically, this familiar veteran of 22 years on the U.S. political scene set himself up as the candidate who could best effect change-and successfully persuaded the voters to accept that image. The Democrats, to be sure, made it all the easier by nominating a man who, whatever his personal credentials, was indissolubly linked with the Johnson Administration's failures in Viet Nam and in the cities...
...continuing campaign for "abortion on demand" on the ground that this is "every woman's birthright." This campaign, in the opinion of Dr. Alan F. Guttmacher, president of Planned Parenthood-World Population, will fail because "the public does not want abortion on demand and is not prepared to accept it." A more realistic approach to reducing the demand for illegal abortion, Guttmacher believes, is to make effective contraception far more widely available...
John Hanify '71, who read the prepared HUC recommendation, said after the meeting that it was the first time "we got down to the substantive issue of parietals. The talk is no longer about legal restrictions but about relevant questions such as, would the students accept the responsibility involved...
Temple Drake is still in sanctuary. The days have not been easy and the pressures have been intense and Temple Drake cries a lot, the hot tears in odd juxtaposition to the rosy cheeks down which they slowly fall. The temptation to give in, to surrender and accept the harsh discipline imposed by the Purdue Marching Band, must be great. But Temple Drake perserves--and in her perseverance is a shining example for beleaguered youth everywhere...