Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan's House of Peers, pondering upon Japan's new draft constitution, last week balked at the provisions renouncing war and abolishing a Japanese army, navy and air force. Their reason: if Japan had no arms, the U.N. might never accept her as a member because she could not execute her obligation to contribute to the world police force. Said Japan's Premier Shigeru Yoshida: "The question of the renunciation of war is one that might be taken up after the Peace Conference...
...learn that in one Detroit hospital only 5.6% of the babies were breastfed. Cornelians blame the trend on what they regard as such erroneous modern notions as: 1) breast feeding ruins a woman's figure; 2) coddling spoils a baby; 3) an infant should be trained early to accept a rigid schedule...
Congenial Atmosphere. Before publication of the Advocate's editorial, the Commonweal, liberal Catholic weekly, took a strikingly similar position: "There is a strong sentiment among Protestants ... for joint action with Catholics on world problems. . . . It is up to Catholics to accept such gestures in the spirit in which they are offered: to greet them in all sincerity and without suspicion...
...airlines forget to add bus fares to & from airports (and bus travel time as well). Also they overlook their limited baggage allowances. ... We accept the fact that airplanes have one primary advantage-speed. But we think trains have a lot of advantages too, including economy and plenty of room to move around...
Dinner at the White House is an almost bite-by-bite account of the dinner, an estimate of the principals present and finally (and mainly) a series of bitter reflections on U.S. foreign policy. For that night Adamic decided that the Prime Minister would never accept the Adamic Plan-Two-Way Passage-or anything resembling it. The Churchill expression "was one of complex annoyance. ... He hadn't liked it at all. I was a bloody nuisance dragged in by F.D.R. and he had had to put up with me. This was implicit in his manner, integral with his whole...