Word: accept
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...live, not because of the red or blue color on the electoral map but because of the narrowness of the residents' minds and the darkness of their hearts. Might not we be better off as two separate nations than as one in which half of us are forced to accept the will of the other half? Larry Herbst Pasadena...
...Bears didn’t have to face Harvard at the preseason Ivy scrimmage in New Haven, which served as a warm up exhibition and whose results determine early CSA rankings. Instead, Brown traveled to Crimson home turf to accept their defeat...
Chris: Bill, I consider it a bad idea to expose underground music to a wider audience when I am skeptical at the new audience’s willingness to accept the music as the artist intends, and when I feel that an artist would be likely to compromise their art for the sake of filthy lucre. In this example I can see the Postal Service going either way. The popularity of the first album was buoyed on the strength of “Such Great Heights,” an excellent single that condenses everything good about the Postal Service...
...view dangerous and excessive drinking. In a community consensus-building effort, each of us must be willing to meet and discuss openly and honestly our attitudes and beliefs about drinking. Furthermore, the success of building this consensus depends on our openness to compromise, so that we can accept common definitions of excessive drinking and the role of the community in addressing this problem. All of us are responsible for being attuned to one’s social and emotional needs; responsible for respecting the well-being of others; responsible for respecting the constraints of the community. Only then will...
...Beatles at my urging, and then had turned to music that was more “hard core” to us: Janis Joplin, The Velvet Underground and Dylan. Although she too had found Dylan through a female crooner (hers was Joan Baez), she wouldn’t accept my rejection of Bob’s voice. “After a while,” she said, “it feels like an old friend.” She made me a tape and I listened harder...