Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still enjoying himself when he rose again to accept an honorary LL.D. degree and to deliver the commencement address. He touched only once on the uproar over his proposed strike legislation. "The Government of the U.S.," he said, "is organized for the rights of the individual. We fought for [this] during the war. We are going to continue that fight." He spoke lightly of calamity howlers, reminded his audience that Henry Clay, in 1833. had cried that the U.S. was soon to be "an elective monarchy, the worst of all forms of government." He added: "I know...
...September, the U.N. General Assembly should then vote to ask all its 51 nations to break diplomatic relations with him. When the formula came before the full Council, Britain and the U.S. might ask for delay in applying the quarantine, but in the end, the Council was likely to accept the subcommittee's plan. Worldwide diplomatic isolation of Spain by U.N. action might be enough to unhorse Franco...
...facts of China's desperate situation. It must be recognized that any liberalized government inherits the currency mess, and what anybody can do with that is the terrible question. The problem is to achieve a housecleaning of such convincing merit that China's essentially stable people will accept currency devaluation as a necessary step toward realization of good government. Then the reformed government must give the people an honestly good government and peace. That is the only long-range hope that...
Rhoda Wenger was fed through nasal tubes. To find foods that her stomach would accept, dietitians tried everything: vitamins in liquid form, juices, beef broth. Sometimes the formula was changed several times...
...preparedness (we) will be catapulted into a futile and devastating foreign war while our own democracy crashes in ruins," to the bewildering 8th of December, 1941 when they decided, "we can see that it is our job to fight, and we are not only willing but eager to accept our task." Realistic, constructive thinking reached its summit when in early 1943 a poll of student opinion indicated that ninety-six percent favored "some sort of world council or international union after the war" and a great majority committed themselves to a permanent international police force. At that time the Crimson...