Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three weeks ago Christian Democratic Premier Adone Zoli ringingly announced that he would not accept office on the strength of Fascist votes. Last week, in a performance that left even connoisseurs of political agility openmouthed, Zoli announced that he was, after all, prepared to swallow one little Fascist vote...
...Flowering. In all these parties, there was a planned detachment from church direction, a deliberate effort to accept collaboration with progressive, socialist and even specifically anticlerical parties. During the first ten postwar years, Christian Democracy had a great flowering. Today, only in Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's West Germany, where they are the party of the center, are the Christian Democrats still riding high...
Brunei (pronounced broon-eye) later fell upon hard times. In 1888, reduced to an impoverished patch of mangrove swamp about the size of the state of Delaware, it was forced to accept British protection. The British set up a few roads, schools and hospitals, put a Resident in charge to keep an eye on the local Sultan, and, for the rest, let Brunei wallow in its primitive backwash...
...used for so tenuous a venture, Ziolkowski balked. Last week he said with a loud tone of finality: "It was not the white man that asked me to come out here, it was the Indians. Even if the Government does lend me the money, I won't accept...
...have a problem," Billy said. "You won't accept...