Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barracks. He raged that the British had shown up only after he had "restored order," and he told a Syrian journalist: "You are replacing the easygoing French with the brutal British." Unimpressed, Syrians killed what stray Frenchmen and Senegalese they could find. After curfew, the humiliated French had to accept British escort to places of safety...
Bond Street dressmakers were offering afternoon dresses from $100. But shoppers who ordered their dresses last week would not be able to wear them until September. Several of the better tailoring firms have advertised in the personal column of the Times, regretting that they cannot accept orders for the next six months...
...American Ambassador ... did not desire and would not accept the right of censorship for the Chinese Government. ... I wasn't consulted in advance about Mr. Taylor's proposal. It would be absurd...
Several factors have made it impossible for us to accept the challenge of your eminent baseball team...
...persuade the armed services to accept a liberal but limited diet of sugar...