Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insisted from the first on knowing everything about her chances, and as she listened she seemed completely undisturbed. In her long life, Martha Ellen Truman had learned to accept trouble. She could remember the guerrilla fighting which raged on the Kansas-Missouri border during the Civil War, and the day when Federal irregulars killed her family's stock and burned haystacks and barns. She had lived by the plain philosophy which she had passed on to her sons-do your best, be loyal to your friends, never forget your enemies. She saw no reason for "a lot of fuss...
Blustery Fawzi, who had organized other armies for the Mufti, assigned himself a leading role. Said he: "I'm ready to go back [to Palestine] when the time is ripe. The Arabs will fight rather than accept partition and I am ready to lead that fight...
...Marshal Sokolovsky intimated Russia's willingness to accept Secretary Byrnes's longstanding invitation for joint administration of Germany-at a price...
...women, no more, no less; the great Lord Northcliffe, who usually passed at least part of each visit relaxing prone on the floor. "There's absolutely nothing to be surprised about in someone choosing to lie on his stomach," Marie Leighton explained. "The sooner you children learn to accept any eccentricity as though it were a commonplace, the better equipped you will be for life...
Many readers may accept some of his diatribes against contemporary life, but just as many are likely to feel that his magic "instinct" is largely a grab bag into which he pops anything he approves of-e.g., the human conscience, which he blandly describes as "the natural candor . . . of instinct." Most readers will find the Essay's philosophy half-baked...