Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan contained no statement or policy which could not have been uttered two months ago. But its virtue was the obvious virtue that, after months of hysteria and confusion, a statement had been made; at last there was an Anglo-American agreement for the rest of the world to accept or reject...
These were ground-gaining plays; the Army had had firm footing right along. It had a plan for merger (see chart); moreover, it was willing to accept any other plan which embodied the principles of unified command, plus an independent air force, for which even ground generals enthusiastically fought. Its mind was open to changes in detail. But the Navy had no adequate plan to replace or revise the present system of divided administration and command - aside from a report made by Financier Ferdinand Eberstadt over which Navymen themselves could not agree...
...Forrestal has asked that the whole thing be "elevated" to a presidential commission. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Struve Hensel pleaded: "We see no reason for frantic rush." The Navy will recommend that the whole matter be given for final adjudication to an umpire committee. Presumably the Navy would accept its decision. Presumably it will also accept the decision of Congress, if one is made without calling in a new umpire...
...appeared that she was: she had won the Nobel .prize for literature ($29,000 at present exchange rates), and Nobel prizewinners accept the awards in Stockholm if possible...
...lives like a man who wants his thrills to come oftener than once in a lifetime. He feels about fly fishing a good deal the way Lucius Beebe feels about trains, and always keeps well ahead in his work in order to be free to accept a banker friend's annual invitation to fish his private stream in Canada...