Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acheson refuses to accept the Knowland proposal. Instead, he has his aides looking for some other bill to serve the same purpose. His attitude has convinced leading Republican Senators that he really opposes the whole idea, still sides with the department's dust-settling faction. At the moment, the chance of a positive program in China seems slim...
Effect & Pattern. With all the testimony in, the board retired for a fortnight to draft its recommendations. Though neither side has to accept the findings, they are bound to have a potent effect; the side that flouts them may well have to fight public opinion in case of a strike. The steelworkers have set a Sept. 14 deadline for an agreement-or a strike...
...kinds of worries" were in the minds of the refugees, reported the Communist Liberation Daily. "Some even thought the government was trying to chase them away, with the result that they didn't dare accept the flour given to them as relief after the [recent] typhoon, for fear of being obliged to leave Shanghai." To soothe them, a Red directive called for propaganda and education, promised a magnanimous attitude toward refugee landowners if they would "repent of their mistakes and engage in production...
...were surprised that TIME, July 11 [in its report of the sweeping vindication of British press ownership by a Royal Commission] described the Daily Express as a "scandalmongering, penny paper." I cannot think that you would accept that as a true or fair description of the Daily Express...
...Memorial Opera House trustees decided to eat their harsh words banning Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad from an autumn engagement. Without her, it seemed, the box-office outlook was too dark. In Salzburg, where she was still as popular as in prewar days, Flagstad magnanimously announced: "I will accept the invitation . . . despite the incident...