Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointed anyhow, and meetings were held at his bedside. Jap guards surrounded his house. He received checks which he did not cash. The newspapers announced his membership on puppet commissions before Roxas had heard of them. He resisted attempts to take him to Tokyo, but he did accept the chairmanship of a Laurel food-gathering commission-on the condition that "the Japanese do not get one grain of rice." And he helped write the puppet constitution-an act that has since thrown suspicion of collaboration upon him. What critics did not know was that the constitution read almost word...
...Congress needed a further example of Presidential bad temper, it was supplied by New Hampshire's Republican Senator Charles W. Tobey (who was largely responsible for persuading the Senate not to accept Ed Pauley as Under Secretary of the Navy). A month ago he had written the President about the grain shortage which was forcing New England farmers to slaughter their chickens. Said Senator Tobey: "This is a Macedonian...
...Rome's sweltering Monte Citorio Palace, where the Constituent Assembly met, the three parties refused to accept De Nicola's refusal. He was the one candidate for whom Christian Democrats, Socialists and Communists had agreed to vote together. Out of 504 valid votes, De Nicola...
...mission left, Viceroy Lord Wavell appointed a temporary "caretaker" government of eight officials of the Raj (seven had been knighted in His Majesty's service, only two were Indians). The biggest step forward had been agreement by both the Congress Party and Moslem League to accept Britain's long-term plan for an Indian constitution providing a central federal government (to please the Congress Party) with strong local autonomy (to please the Moslem League). Election of delegates to frame a constitution was already starting, might be finished within a month. But already the Congress Party had served notice...
...Garman, Amherst's frail 19th Century logician: "Garman taught . . . not the technique of logic, but the practical application of logical methods. . . . He was capable of making a false statement seem convincing, as a means to an end. This was extraordinarily stimulating; you never felt quite sure whether to accept what was said or not; you had to think...