Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...furtherance of this design, Churchill and Bevin begged the House of Commons to accept a temporary U.S. monopoly of atomic manufacture. They gave exaggerated, un-British praise to President Truman's "Twelve Points" of U.S. foreign policy. And Attlee, promoting an international pooling of atomic knowledge and research, clearly assumed that at the start the U.S.-British Big Two would manage the pool...
...last week the divisions trained and equipped by the C.C.C. were playing another role-one equally important to China's destiny. They were the spearheads thrust by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek into North China and Manchuria to accept the Japanese surrender and to meet the military challenge of the Chinese Communists (see FOREIGN NEWS). They may well become the decisive factor in their nation's civil...
...could have picked his college and named his terms. Although he had a sentimental feeling about Tulane, he finally decided on North Carolina-because Coach Jim Tatum was his mother's first cousin. When he became Pfc. Blanchard in the Army, little persuasion was needed to make him accept an appointment to West Point...
Thus died the man whose name had become a worldwide synonym for traitor. The police had to keep the ashes of his cremated body; his native village refused to accept them for burial...
...North China, where the great stake was the railway system, a solution was proposed by Chungking's Information Minister K. C. Wu: 1) the Communists should withdraw from the railways; 2 ) the Central Government would accept their local administration beyond the right of way, pending a final political solution. Yenan answered: "Until a political settlement is reached, occupation of railways is dangerous...