Word: reject
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American" student-action groups, demands for more "black culture" in the curriculum, and a growing scorn for the white, middle-class world that lies within reach of the college-trained Negro. The new mood ranges from angry militancy to a brotherly desire for mutual improvement-and it does not reject violence as one way to make the black presence felt...
Although Negro students by and large reject Detroit-style rioting as deplorable, they are willing to use the threat of violence to gain their campus goals. At no school has that threat proved more effective than at California's San Jose State College (enrollment: 23,000), where a mere 60 Negro students last month threatened to burn the campus down unless discrimination against them was stopped. The students' leader, Sociology Teacher Harry Edwards, a towering (6 ft. 8 in.) former San Jose basketball star, contended that Negro students could not find decent housing in San Jose, Negro athletes...
...University of Michigan some fifteen years ago, and five others whose names were withheld from the press, sent a letter yesterday to the director of the NSF, Leland J. Haworth. In it, Bott referred to what he called "political pressures" which affected the NFS's decision to reject Smale's request for a continuation of his present grant...
...Your rundown of freelance writers [Sept. 15] is a put-down leaving a blunted impression. Many of us, for example, reject a good deal more than 20% of the articles we are asked to write. Many of us, also, though in our late 30s, still find ourselves constantly rejecting offers of "other ways to make money"-such as editing. But the main point is, I think, that most of us still like to approach writing -whether for magazines or books or newspaper supplements-more for the sake of expression than income, more in search of truth than rewards...
...maybe one week or ten days after that, I will suggest a bombing pause," he said. "But it all depends on how Hanoi replies to my suggestion." Judging from the diatribes from Hanoi, Peking and Moscow after the elections, it seemed likely that the North Vietnamese would reject it out of hand. Top Washington officials say that the Communists have made no attempt to signal any interest in talks...