Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agreed to reopen negotiations with Russia provided that all Koreans who will sign "Communique No. 5" shall be admitted to consultation in setting up an all-Korea government. This Communique binds Koreans 1) to accept the "aims" of the Moscow decision, including trusteeship for their nation; and 2) to refrain from any demonstrations against trusteeship during the course of the conference. Only Communists will sign such a document...
...Good Night's Sleep. Nagy hung up, thought a while and decided not to accept this sinister invitation. He called Budapest to see what terms he could make with the Communists. They told him they would let his four-year-old son, Laszlo, join him in exile. Nagy went around to the Hungarian legation and announced that he would resign as Premier as soon as Laszlo arrived. Then he went back to the hotel, disconnected his phone and went to bed. Said a fellow countryman: "I'll bet Nagy was the only Hungarian in Bern who slept that...
Even the regulars, who distrusted Stassen's Willkiesque internationalism, had begun to realize that Harold Stassen was no Wendell Willkie. Unlike Willkie, he was first & last a good party Republican. When he was misquoted three weeks ago as being ready to accept the vice-presidential nomination, he had actually said, with careful hedging, that he would be a good party soldier if he were beaten for the No. 1 spot...
...Dickie" Mountbatten was for a quick showdown. India's leaders would meet in Delhi June 2. Mountbatten would give them one more chance to accept or reject, once & for all, Britain's 1946 plan for India-a loose federation of states. If they rejected it (and Mohamed Ali Jinnah, the Moslem leader, almost certainly would), then Mountbatten would suggest an alternative. Under it, each province could decide for itself whether 1) to join Hindustan, 2) to join Pakistan, 3) to set itself up as an independent nation...
...Accept in payment any sort of benefit, direct of indirect, which the President may find satisfactory...