Word: submit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against its will by an insubordinate army of 8000 men drawn from several quarrelsome tribes. Had the hot-headed young Ibo officers who staged the assassinations won out, they would have soon discovered this. Now the less messianic, older men who have regained control of the army must quickly submit to the laws of Nigerian politics or else be faced with widespread local rioting...
Dunlop said that a wide variety of arrangements are now being used throughout the country to deal with strikes by public employees. In Boston, the Transit Authority has an agreement with the union that if the two are unable to reach a settlement, they will submit the dispute to arbitration...
...Spencer-Roberts political-management firm, Reagan has moved slightly toward center. He still spends a good part of his time inveighing against "social tinkering" and "big-brother, paternalistic government," has refused to rule out support from the far-right wing by declaring: "I am not going to submit a loyalty oath to anyone who votes for me." But Reagan, calling himself a "citizen-politician" and pushing the theme of a "creative society" for Cali fornia, also preaches that government must do something about problems like smog and unemployment, acknowledges that such programs as social security and medicare are here...
...gentlemen did not write history, but the historical biography of a man just dead. They were actors in many of the scenes they described, and, therefore, could not be historians. They have prepared invaluable materials for the subsequent historian, and done an admirable piece of literary work; but I submit that they have not written history." I don't agree, but that's what the man said...
Christmas trees were checked for explosives before they were allowed into U.S. billets, and at the American commissary, guards used mirrors mounted on long poles to look underneath vehicles driven by Vietnamese. In the Caravelle Hotel, Vietnamese guests of Americans heading for the top-floor restaurant had to submit to searches in the lobby, and were required to leave their ID cards behind with the concierge. A dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed by Westmoreland on all U.S. military personnel in Saigon...