Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese Government are ready to accept the terms enumerated . . . at Potsdam on July 26, 1945 . . . with the understanding that the said declaration does not comprise any demand which prejudices the prerogative of His Majesty as a sovereign ruler. The Japanese Government hope sincerely that this...
...electrical engineer named D. Reginald Tibbetts was sitting up late amid the clutter of radio equipment in his bedroom. At 4:27 in the morning (P.W.T.), listening to the dit-dah-dah of fast Morse, he began transcribing a Domei News Agency broadcast: "The Japanese Government are ready to accept. . . ." At the same time, in a white frame house in Portland, Ore., an FCC monitor picked up the same exciting news -Japan was officially offering to surrender...
Said Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnarn and Lawyer John Foster Dulles, speaking for the Federal Council of Churches: "If we, a professedly Christian nation, feel morally free to use atomic energy in that way, men elsewhere will accept that verdict . . . the stage will be set for the sudden and final destruction of mankind...
...representation of Jewish boys that enroll year by year at Dartmouth," he added. "Some of our outstanding alumni are Jews, as are some of the foremost benefactors of the college. . . . However . . . Dartmouth . . . would lose its racial tolerance, which it is desperately anxious not to lose, were we to accept unexamined the great blocks of Jewish applications which come...
Scorning a chair, but leaning on a cane, Weygand hammered at the prosecution's case. "I will accept from no one," he cried, "lessons in patriotism and honor. What is honor? To be steadfast and to speak the truth. . . . Nothing will induce me to call Pétain a traitor...