Word: accepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second plenary session, U.S. is reported to have said that it "is prepared to accept a role for the Communists in political life of South Viet Nam." Hanoi shows interest. U.S. leaves coalition possibility open, but Hanoi insists that the bombing be ended before any progress can be made...
...commitments is a real one for many ghetto dwellers. "People here have no reason to believe anything but that they are at the bottom today and they'll be there tomorrow," he said. "We try to convince them of the greater possibilities so they will have a reason to accept their responsibilities...
Bogovich's high school coach gave him the idea to apply to college, and, Bogovich says, "I figured I might as well try for the best." Harvard sent word that it would accept him if he spent a year brushing up on his English and arranged for him to be enrolled in Deerfield Academy for this purpose...
...that Wallace feeds on elsewhere are less important in the more fluid and open society of the West. The people who live there have no difficulty voting for conservatives like Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, or voting against open-housing measures. But many seem to find it difficult to accept Wallace's radicalism, with its unabashed divisions between "them" and "us." At any rate, Wallace, the master of noise and turmoil, was unnerved by the unaccustomed silence. "It's real difficult for me to speak to an orderly crowd," he confessed to 3,500 aerospace workers near...
...nearly three years as New York City's mayor, John V. Lindsay has seemed to lead a charmed life. Taking office after an upset victory, he was immediately faced with a prolonged subway strike that might have broken almost anyone else. Fortunately for him, New Yorkers accepted it-as they tend to accept all man-made disasters-as well as a garbage strike that made the city's streets look like Saigon's. Nor were New Yorkers particularly troubled when some of Lindsay's aides began to desert him, or when scandals erupted that would have...