Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britons seemed willing to accept the regimentation that introduced their planned future. But if they were to keep their freedom out on loan, they would want results, and before 1950. In a speech at Musselburgh, Scotland, Clement Attlee summed up his Party's aims: "To build a new society ... of peace, freedom and social justice." If it built all that, Labor might well catapult old, tired Britain into a new and thrilling place in the sun. If it failed, Britain would catapult Labor...
...even welcomed the conqueror. But many fought and many died. In exile, Benes won Allied support for his refugee government, organized a new Czechoslovak army, kept close contact with the homeland's hopes and fears, and planned a new synthesis. "Ideas do not stand still," he said. "We accept the catch phrase of the last war: 'The cure for democracy is more democracy...
...revolt and panic which rocked Buenos Aires and the Argentine nation, three facts emerged: 1) Colonel Juan Domingo Perón was out cold; 2) General Eduardo Avalos, new Minister of War, held the sword-hand; 3) democratic Argentines, united in a common front, were in no mood to accept anything less than the full restoration of constitutional government...
...England's Roman Catholic Father Dale Roberts stoutly insisted: "No true Christian can accept the principle that essential evil can be wrought to attain a good...
...over to its trustees. Father Chalmers, by special permission, stayed on as headmaster. Father Chalmers soon discovered the impossibility of fitting his Order's cloistered rules to his job as a busy headmaster. But Kent's trustees, clinging to the school's tradition, were unwilling to accept someone who was not a monk...