Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unwanted. At a protest meeting, 350 farmers and their wives passed a resolution demanding that the government "stop this kind of thing." When Mistress Matimba went shopping, the white ladies of the village turned their backs on her. A tailor refused to accept her husband's trousers for dry cleaning. When Patrick entered a bank without removing his hat, a teller ordered him out for failing to show the proper respect for white depositors...
Kennedy's stand for law and order is refreshing. Why should law-abiding citizens be forced to accept what amounts to official collusion with violence and lawlessness ? This has become a tyranny of the minority, and both youngsters and adults who believe in the law are suffering...
Such types as Goldfine must be curbed, for they wreak havoc on honest and law-abiding citizens (I do not mean Adams), who accept the largesse unsuspectingly...
...moved to keep the peace. We have to accept the chance that it may mean...
...Instructor at the military academy, Nasser married the daughter of a Cairo rug merchant. Nasser saw no World War II action. The British had reoccupied Egypt, ringed Farouk's palace with tanks, made the King accept their nominee for wartime Premier...