Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Please accept my fervid thanks for the service you render this reader when you give the pronunciation of names in the news such as Siobhan McKenna [TIME, Feb. 9]. LULINE* FORTUNE WILLIS Texarkana...
...thought of being seen or photographed at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council's traditional week-long session in a palm-fringed winter resort. But the 29 elders of the U.S. labor movement, more than half of them on the ripe side of 60, voted nonetheless to accept Puerto Rico's invitation to the glossy Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan. Still protesting, Reuther and his wife flew down tourist class; up forward in the first-class section of the same DC-7B, United Electrical Workers' Boss
...going back on it. Karamanlis laid down an ultimatum: take this agreement or bear the blame for wrecking the conference. With twelve hours to decide, Makarios spent the night "in prayer and reflection." Next morning at 8 he summoned his advisers, told them that he had decided to accept the agreement. The steamroller had worked...
...trouble with American programs, in addition to their sporadic, crisis-to-crisis nature, is in the source itself. Newly independent nations, jealous of their hard-won freedom, are naturally reluctant to accept help from one of the major Cold War powers. Either they accept amid misgivings and internal tensions or they cynically play off one offer against another...
...State Department expressed its concern lest "the situation degenerate to the point where hostilities will break out." And just as the situation seemed to be degenerating further, Syngman Rhee's government belatedly offered, after all, to "accept all Koreans in Japan-provided the Japanese government gives them suitable compensation...