Word: accept
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Call me Ishmael* if you like, but this Protestant will vote for Kennedy. I would like to get the word around that one does not have to embrace the Catholic faith to vote for him. There are some who reject the doctrine of the infallibility of the Pope but accept the doctrine of the infallibility of Ike without batting an eyelash...
...successful mating of East and West. I am German, and I am married to a Pakistani. Before coming to the U.S., I lived in Pakistan. I lived there very happily with my husband and with everybody else even though I 1) did not adopt Islam; 2) did not accept the constraints of Moslem society, e.g., I certainly did talk to my husband's male friends; 3) did not learn to wear a sari or salwar and kameez-for the same reason that your article points out: a Western girl rarely looks good in them...
...each able to obliterate more than a dozen cities. In a score of countries, reactors are now producing plutonium, a nuclear explosive. We cannot long entrust our lives to small numbers of men with the means of mass death at their fingertips, men filled with fear and conditioned to accept without question orders to kill tens of millions of individuals...
...continued manufacture and posession. We know full well that the possible consequences of such radical action include invasion, conquest and tyranny; yet they are within the limits of human experience. Societies throughout history have been able to recover from situations comparable to the most extreme of these possibilities. We accept responsibility for developing effective ways of keeping alive our basic values and stand ready to dedicate our lives toward this end. But we deny the alternative of nuclear deterrents, for they threaten not only our existence, but man's future as well...
WITH KENNEDY IN OHIO, Sept. 27--Cheered by thousands on Ohio streets roadsides, Sen. John F. Kennedy vowed that a Democratic administration "will accept as a final solution" the Soviet enslavement of Eastern Europe...