Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the arrival of peace Scranton's 140,000 citizens, unwilling to accept a ghost city in a deserted valley, decided to bet a chunk of solid cash on a new future. Spurred on by civic leader Ralph E. Weeks, president of world-famous International Correspondence Schools, they formed a corporation (The Scranton Plan Inc.), wrote a campaign song (Buy Scranton Bonds), and, on street corners, in barber shops and bars, at luncheons and rallies, began collecting $100 pledges...
...learned late last night that James M. Landis will resign as Dean of the Law School, effective June 20, in order to accept his appointment as head of the civil Aeronautics Board...
...Plenty of Vodka." Gromyko's walkout only emphasized the Russian insistence on one-power veto-even for procedural matters-which they have been raising ever since Dumbarton Oaks. The Council had refused to accept a paralyzing procedural veto...
...Please accept my assurance that there was no malicious intent. . . . It was the farthest thing from my mind to want to cause you any mental anguish. . . . As I have since told people, you were one of my favorite teachers and that's why your name has stuck with me through all the years...
...innocent Greenwich girl named Miranda (Gene Tierney) knew no better. She was helping with the chores on her father's farm when fate gave her a chance to go to Dragonwyck, the Hudson Valley home of a distant relative. Miranda trembled with joy, begged to be allowed to accept. Her parents, dubious at first, finally relented...