Word: accept
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Gaitskell was indeed battling for his political life. At the Labor Party conference at Scarborough last month, Gait-skell's foes had rammed through a resolution endorsing unilateral nuclear disarmament for Britain. Defiantly, Gaitskell, a determined supporter of NATO, refused to accept the vote as official Labor policy or as binding on him, argued that only the party's elected representatives in Par- liament could finally speak for the Labor Party. He insisted that the "Parliamentary Party," which is British shorthand for all Labor Members of Parliament, still backed him and his policy of maintaining the nuclear deterrent...
...General Assembly debate. Then Hammarskjold got word that even the U.S. was upset at the report. "We have every confidence in the good faith of Belgium and its desire to be of assistance in the Congo," huffed a State Department spokesman in Washington. "We therefore are unable to accept the implications to the contrary contained in various parts of the report." This week, when the General Assembly debated the resolution to decide which Congo faction should be seated in the U.N., other guns would open fire at the stolid Swede. Not the least of them would probably be the Soviet...
Kennedy said he admitted his error in accusing the Republican Party of passing no progressive legislation this century "I accept the correction" of a Cleveland newspaper which recalled some items President Taft had supported, "but what have they done since then?" More noise...
...people she had seen who went to Europe and felt that they were superior to Europeans. "We have no right to do that," she said, "it's as though I insulted my neighbor because her garden is different than mine." But believing this vehemently, she couldn't accept the fact that Meyer feels exactly the same way. She, too, was voting for Stafford...
...problem, obviously, is whether the benefits are worth the penalty. Those who claim that every day in every way our school's grow worse and worse, seem inclined to accept almost any kind of Federal leadership (leadership, in their eyes, is different from control; the record in other fields makes this a remarkable faith...