Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...telling the 70,000 people in the Los Angeles Coliseum what a great guy he was, Jack Kennedy fidgeted in his chair, nervously fingered his lips and ears, chatted with his neighbor, or worked at scraping a wad of gum off his right shoe. When the time came to accept the Democratic presidential nomination, he graciously saluted the vanquished one by one-Running Mate Lyndon Johnson, Adlai Stevenson, Stuart Symington, Hubert Humphrey, also scrappy Paul Butler, retiring chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and the absent Harry Truman. Then Jack Kennedy plunged into his speech, proved with considerable eloquence that...
...John F. Kennedy I accept . . . the happy privilege of campaigning on your platform...
...secured, the Democratic Party promises "forces and weapons of a diversity, balance and mobility sufficient in quantity and quality to deter both limited and general aggressions," plus a "strong and effective" civil defense. To the "rulers of the Communist world," the platform addresses a bracing declaration: "We confidently accept your challenge to competition in every field of human effort...
...Paramatman [God] is not willing, then I must accept my fate...
...novels while a fuzzy-minded liberal, and the play sometimes verges on the sentimental glorification of the sordid and false that fuzzy-mindedness may produce. However, a coolly ironical detachment saves most of the script from mushiness, and provides a background for emotion-packed events that enables us to accept their content as sentiment, rather than sentimentality...