Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...willful, half-barbaric King yearns to improve himself and his backward country-but without once relaxing his regal prerogatives. Nor does he wish to accept too much help from someone who is not only a foreigner but also a lowly woman. To hold and secure her job, Anna has to perform daily miracles of common sense, dignity, humor, forbearance and strength of character. As played by Irene Dunne and Britain's Rex Harrison (in his first Hollywood movie), the clash of these two kinetic personalities should be more fun for an adult audience than the standard maneuverings toward...
JINNAH: Why do I ask you to accept this plan now? Have I changed...
...Fresh Start? Labor-and political expediency-had won again. The U.S., through its President, had failed again to come to complete grips with the labor question. The people, through Congress, had given unmistakable notice that it was time for labor to accept its responsibilities, but labor, despite some of its leaders' offstage whispers about the necessity of some reforms, had shown no public inclination to pay that sort of price for peace. And the President, playing the political game, had strung along with labor...
...Soviet propaganda, according to which "all oppression from the left is progression, all resistance from the right is reactionary. . . ." Grimly he warned: "The idea of keeping scores of millions of people hanging about in subhuman state between earth and hell until they are worn down to slave conditions and accept Communism or die off will only breed moral pestilence and probably...
...spoke in jubilant undertones, as if letting his followers in on the secret that the British proposal for a free Indian Constitution meant that the Moslems were sure to get their separate Pakistan state. By inference he urged them to accept the plan, although he admitted at one point that the British mission had rejected Pakistan...