Word: accepted
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Endlessly he defended "provincial autonomy." But Duplessis' continuing squabble with Canada's federal government over tax apportionment, his refusal to let the Trans-Canada Highway go through Quebec, his refusal to allow Quebec universities to accept sorely needed federal grants, made much sense in French Canada. Quebec, over the eventful 200 years since England's Wolfe beat France's Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham, has kept its identity, even prospered as a French enclave in the continent of les Anglais and the Yankees. A major reason was just this sort of cohesive orneriness...
Senator Dodd put in just a few short words the real feeling of the American people, and also he has in a way shown us how to accept Khrushchev's arrival. The one thing the American people should avoid is mass cheers and greetings...
Last week, as the Legion met in Minneapolis for its 41st convention, an attempt was made for the tenth straight year to force the 40 & 8 to accept nonwhites-and for the first time the motion came to a floor vote. Pushing hardest behind it were the Legion's California delegates: the Santa Clara chapter of 40 & 8 had lost its charter after admitting an American of Chinese ancestry. In the 90° temperature of Minneapolis Auditorium, the oratory came to a boil. "Those who would introduce bigotry in our organization," cried the Rev. Edward Goodwin, chaplain...
...remarkably ill-tempered reply Sir Richard in effect told the Masai to be satisfied with the white man's edicts, and to accept ?40 ($112) as their cut of the tourist trade. Shocked, most of the assembled Masai withdrew out of hearing until he had finished his harangue, while an amazed British reporter said under his breath: "I thought this sort of thing was finished 25 years...
...other hand, De Sica is unable to accept the fact that his 16-year-old daughter has, since her last fitting, developed a 35-inch bust herself, and is holding furtive assignations with a school chum in the ruins of ancient Rome. "We teach our children how to be children," reflects one of the characters in The Maid. "But has anyone taught us how to be fathers? We have to play it by ear." And that is how they play the whole picture...