Word: reject
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before Charles de Gaulle vowed to resign "without delay" if Frenchmen reject his proposals in the April 27 national referendum, the polls showed an apathetic and uncertain electorate: 52% undecided or determined to abstain and the rest almost evenly divided. Last week the first poll taken after the general's ultimatum turned up results that would dismay a lesser man. A full 40% of the voters had not yet made up their minds, and the rest were still divided. Only 52% intended to vote oui for De Gaulle's program-and therefore for De Gaulle himself...
...resolution asks that the year be used to discuss rents with representatives from Peabody Terrace, that a decision on rents be reached by next January 1, and that the Corporation accept or reject the moratorium...
...April 7 communique is unacceptable. The proposed format does nothing but add independent studies to the already-existing majors at this university. Further, the communique presupposes tat Afro-American Studies is less than a legitimate and valid intellectual endeavor. We reject this notion; Afro-American Studies needs no support from so-called "allied" fields...
...with Eugene McCarthy, the moody Minnesotan who had the courage to challenge his party's President, then seemingly lacked the spine or energy to wage more than a languid, token campaign against Hubert Humphrey for his party's nomination. What kind of a man, they wonder, can reject frantic calls from campaign aides at key moments, first because he is watching the All-Star baseball game on television, next because he is playing softball with a group of nuns? What about his pettiness toward opponents, his long refusal to endorse Humphrey after the Vice President won the nomination...
Townrow is not undeserving of his fate. A failed theological student, a failed husband, he wears the dank, damned look of a Graham Greene reject. His main achievement in 35 years has been to embezzle money from a charity fund dedicated to the memory of drowned Boy Scouts. With modest accuracy, he describes himself as given to "spasms of dishonesty, lechery and disloyalty...