Word: reject
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their openness to new ideas, parents have some firm objections to a few proposals that are being talked about. They reject a longer school day to reduce homework, summer vacations shortened to four weeks, standard tests in all U.S. high schools, and use of "pass" or "fail" grading...
...mind on one issue: they liked hummable music. In 1948, Russia's leading composers were summoned to a meeting and warned of the evils of the unmelodious music of Western modernists. Stick to "socialist realism," they were told. Under Nikita, the malady lingered on. Said he: "We flatly reject this cacophony music. Our people cannot use this rubbish as a tool of their ideology...
Born in the sit-ins of 1960, S.N.C.C.-commonly known as SNICK-immediately became the most aggressive of the civil rights groups, sometimes appalling older outfits by its sheer bullheadedness. As legal barriers to Negro freedom dropped some S.N.C.C. leaders appeared to reject cooperation with whites as a kind of treasonous collaboration. Before the Alabama primary earlier this month, they even urged Negroes to boycott the election and to give their votes to independent Negro candidates in November...
...President announced plans to turn Head Start into a year-round program for 350,000 needy children, only to discover that it would have cost three times as much money as was available. The upshot was an administrative nightmare. Communities deluged Washington with applications, and OEO had to reject or pigeonhole scores of them...
...liberals demanded that the National Committee elicit no-discrimination pledges from all state and local G.O.P. groups on pain of expulsion, and require Mississippi's Republicans to drop the pro-segregation platform plank they adopted in 1964. The party's congressional leadership, urged the report, should reject converts such as South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond and Representative Albert Watson unless they state their "agreement with the cardinal Republican principle of equal opportunity for all Americans" before crossing the aisle...