Word: reject
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this reflects the new understanding of the nature of the church that has emerged from Vatican II. Many council documents explicitly reject the notion that Catholicism is primarily a juridically organized and hierarchically governed institution; what they assert instead is that the church is above all the people of God, on a journey that will remain incomplete until the second coming of Christ. Says India's Archbishop Eugene D'Souza: "The church's whole approach to the world is one of sincere admiration, not of dominating it but of serving it, not of despising...
...future in Viet Nam, he does not miss a chance to tell his readers that there is no alternative to letting Hanoi have its way. Bombing, he insists, can have no appreciable effect. The North Vietnamese, he says, "have a totally unshakable determination to win the war . . . they reject the machinery of compromise...
...planned to offer the Vice-Presidency to Johnson and would try to make him accept it (Theodore White), and also said that he only decided to make the offer Wednesday night (Sorensen). On Thursday he either offered the nomination to Johnson seriously (White-Sorensen) or expected him to reject it (Schlesinger). Later, Bobby Kennedy either went to Johnson on his own (White) or as his brother's representative (Sorensen) to suggest that Johnson might become chairman of the national committee instead: or he was sent with instructions that were superseded by a phone call from his brother to Johnson before...
...this aspect of the plan that provoked the bitterest criticism from the Council. Yesterday Wiggins said that the University has decided to reject this proposal -- the one backed by traffic experts -- and revert to an earlier plan: widening Quincy St. and keeping it two-way. This change also satisfied the Cambridge fire department, which had with-held its approval...
...been able to stomach. The Bung, who badly needs the Communists as a balancing force against the military, has been toying with the idea of a new nationalistic Communist Party, free of Peking's influence, that might be acceptable to the army. But many officers reject a "neo-P.K.I." Says Defense Minister Abdul Harris Nasution: "We should destroy the P.K.I., not because we are antiCommunist, but because the Communists have already betrayed the state with slaughter, torture, terrorism and treason...