Word: accept
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Depression talk, Humphrey agrees, is not easy to put over in 1960. "Liberalism on the national scene must be dramatized to catch hold," he says. "When people have enough, as they do now, they tend to accept the status quo. To articulate the need for economic growth, for example, you may have to be overdramatic as an advocate to stir up the people. If you don't do that, you don't get your message through." Humphrey is prepared to go forth into Wisconsin with all the sound and fury at his command and stir up the people...
...hours after Kempski's interview hit France, Massu was on his way to Paris to explain. From Algiers, spokesmen for the diehard European settlers' organizations loudly warned De Gaulle not to make them choose between him and the popular Massu; even Premier Michel Debré wanted to accept Massu's ambiguous repudiation of the interview. But at that point De Gaulle blew up. Outraged by the implication that the army had supported him only "for lack of a better man"-the one remark Massu wholeheartedly insisted he did not make-De Gaulle summarily ordered Massu relieved...
Strait is the gate and narrow is the way to Wheaton. The questions put to a prospective faculty member constitute a kind of primer of Fundamentalism, e.g., How long have you been saved? Do you accept the account of the creation of the world and man as recorded in Genesis? Do you recognize a position in Wheaton College as a divine calling to Christian service? Have you used tobacco, alcoholic beverages or narcotic drugs in any form within the past year, or danced or played cards or attended the theater or moving-picture theater? The wrong answer to any question...
...Washington for State Department briefings before a two-month Latin Ameican tour, Democrat Adlai Stevenson again denied that he was a candidate for President, again said he did not expect to be drafted. Asked if he would accept an appointment as Secretary of State, Stevenson replied: "I would look on any office with great respect...
Kishi served the Japanese war machine faithfully and well, and he makes no bones of it. When a newsman tactfully suggested in 1957 that Kishi had no option but to accept the Emperor's decision to go to war, he replied curtly: "I have no wish to defend myself that way. All the state ministers were responsible for assisting the Emperor to make the decision." As always, Kishi had a practical plan. Japan, he argued, was using only 10% of its production in the war with China ("Chicken feed!"), and by properly organizing the remainder could win quick military...