Word: accept
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Committee has not yet approved the final plan, which will be submitted to the Radcliffe Board of Trustees for approval in January. The Corporation must also accept the plan before it can go into effect...
...attacks are clearly part of a vicious strategy designed to force the Vietnamese to accept a permanent American presence of more than 200,000 troops in their country. The Administration has repeatedly refused to commit itself to the principle of total withdrawal because it intends to maintain the massive U. S. military bases in Vietnam permanently in order to consolidate its control of Southeast Asia...
Each person to accept as his unavoidable duty educating himself and others about the scope of the governments crimes in Asia. Everyone who opposes the war should learn as much as possible about it and should demand that our newspapers and broadcasting networks end their self-imposed censorship on the government's actions in Southeast Asia...
Evidently fearing that Solzhenitsyn will be prevented from journeying to Stockholm on Dec. 10 to accept his Nobel Prize, Rostropovich ridiculed the Kremlin's wildly fluctuating attitudes toward the award. He noted that when it was given to Boris Pasternak in 1958, and to Solzhenitsyn this year, it was regarded as "a dirty political game." But when Stalinist Novelist Mikhail Sholokhov was honored in 1965, it was seen as "a just recognition of the world significance of our literature." About Solzhenitsyn's banned novels, Rostropovich said: "He has suffered for the right to write the truth...
...Stade restated his opposition to the Harvard-Radcliffe merger. Admitting that he was a "male chauvinist" and that he was "prejudiced," he said that it would be "disloyal to Harvard," which is "male-oriented," to turn down very qualified men to accept more women...