Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Butch LaGuardia probably could not be put over without a slam-bang fight. It was not likely that big Jim Farley and other conservatives would accept LaGuardia without some heavy shooting. Farley makes no bones about how much he dislikes New Dealish Jim Mead. In 1942 he had said Mead would "make a terrible Governor...
...preserve the sanity of a million struggling authors who accept the mouthings of literary titans as gospel. . . . What gives...
Handsome, young (32) King Mohamed Zahir Shah wound up the week's celebration by expressing Afghanistan's neutrality policy in hard-boiled terms: "Afghanistan always wished and still wishes for the respect of its rights, freedom and integrity. It cannot accept in the slightest anything injurious or limiting the rights and independence of this country...
Both bidders want to use the 2,815-mile system for natural gas transmission, are favored by Wall Street to win. But the Government will accept their proposals only as a last resort. It wants the lines used for petroleum products, will give first choice to buyers or lessors who promise to use it for them. One reason: Big Inch's daily throughput of 300,000 barrels of crude, Little Big Inch's 235,000 barrels of gasoline would be on tap for any national emergency...
...recalled LaGuardia's warning on food: "We cannot promise what we cannot give," and turned toward the Communist benches: "You are pledged against inflation. Should it come, you will have to accept . . . more than a share of the responsibility...