Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learn that Colin P. Kelly III, 19, son of the World War II hero killed on a Philippines bombing mission three days after Pearl Harbor, had won an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy, strictly on his own. The surefire way for "Corky" Kelly to enter the Point: accept an appointment by Ike, pursuant to a request made in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter addressed "to the President of the U.S. in 1956." Young Kelly instead passed a competitive examination last March, will become a plebe in July...
...point, eyes half closed as he ponders a question, the Governor is revealed as a man under great stress-and as a man who is determinedly thinking his way through." Thus made to appear as a statesman instead of a pol, Pennsylvania's Lawrence sought out Photographer Vathis. "Accept my humblest apologies, Paul." he said. "I was wrong. It was a good picture, after...
GENEVA, May 12--U.S. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter laid on the line today the West's sweeping package plan for uniting Berlin, merging East and West Germany, and starting global disarmament. He urged the Soviet Union to accept it as the basis for a European settlement...
...advise you not to accept the invitations of students I don't know. If you do, I can't be in any way responsible," declared Walter Clemens...
Only on the final day of our stay in San Francisco were we finally able to have some free time for ourselves and accept the invitation of a group of students to visit Stanford University without our guides...