Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...analyzing the complicated political tangle in the Congo, Takizala said he was inclined to accept the neutralization of political factionalism resulting from Mobutu's seizure of power. He expressed doubt that Mobutu would relax his grip in the near future since "the condition of political stability which was announced as the contingency for a resumption of normal politics has not yet occurred...
...Economics, had been offered a post. He would not comment on a New York Times story that he was Kennedy's choice as the next Ambassador to India. Although he admitted he had "no yearning for a polished desk" in Washington, he was non-committal on whether he would accept an ambassadorial post...
...faces exactly this choice now; only one of its proposed spring shows was accepted by the Loeb Student-Faculty Advisory Committee. Unless the club's members are resigned either to accept the dictates of the committee or to strive for a Harvard dramatic octopus, they should present their second play outside the Loeb. After all, plays have been given in the Fogg Museum courtyard...
What I cannot accept, however, is his account of Russians assuring me that they had no hostile images of the United States and that they objected to Khrushchev's demolition of the Summit. What I did say was that during my short visit to the Soviet Union last summer I was struck by the absence of hostility to myself and my traveling companions as Americans--despite the fact that we reached Russia just after the Powers trial, when popular feeling against our country might be presumed to be at its height. I had no such conversations as Mr. Smith reports...
...umpire of battle re-creations," declare that the South had won after all. "In other words, permit the Southern states to secede from the Union for keeps. For nine decades they've been out of step with the rest of the nation anyhow, so why not accept the fact and permit the Confederate States of America to officially form itself...