Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Orleans-born Judge Wright, who has been forced to accept round-the-clock police protection and to take an unlisted telephone number, is the latest addition to an honor roll without precedent in U.S. legal annals. In the wake of its desegregation decision of 1954, the Supreme Court empowered Federal District judges to set the timing of "all deliberate speed," to approve or veto school-board desegregation plans, and to use every court power to see that integration was carried out. Many of the federal judges saddled with civil rights burdens were Southerners whose personal emotions ran contrary...
...Peking last week, the People's Daily blasted "modern revisionists" who show themselves not "strong enough in the struggle against imperialism." At that, Moscow's Pravda roared back that the "main danger" to Communist progress nowadays was "dogmatism and sectarianism," i.e., Peking's refusal to accept Khrushchev's doctrine of conquering the world by the slower techniques of coexistence...
More important, the fact that educators and scientists showed concern about the role of federal aid and a willingness to improve it indicates a future of cooperation and mutual understanding for government and university. Educators have not been content to accept all sorts of tempting funds with complete disregard for an institution's freedom and standards. They have not been so naive as to assume that they can survive without a successful working agreement with Washington. Those on the government end, likewise, have not been satisfied to shovel loads of post-Sputnik dollars into science with the blind hope that...
...authority, the World Court at The Hague has never been permitted to live up to its resounding name. Properly known as the International Court of Justice, it is the top U.N. judicial tribunal, but no major power (including the U.S.) is yet willing to bind itself unconditionally to accept the court's decisions...
...department of the University both to present such a film uncritically, and to accept blithely (and print in the University Gazette) the description "communist-inspired student riots," is to use dangerous and irrelevant government propaganda in the guise of education...