Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room these zero mornings as again a joyous Christmas season is upon us Yes, in spite of Lewis's talk on the impracticality of giving gifts, the majority of us are still ploughing through Boston's quaint little mobs to purchase them. Jim Grisham is still resolved to accept anything up to a Buick convertible. (tan with beaver upholstery and disappearing bar) without batting an eye--and the rest of us are of the same mind. So let yourself go--Merry Christmas...
...that the conscience of many Christians is troubled, and it ought to be troubled. Certainly Christians cannot with silence accept the errors of commission and omission...
...natural affinity for maps and a flair for topography, a prodigious memory which not only endears him to countless juniors whose names he recalls, but enables him to make quick decisions by balancing in his mind all the items of risk against the elements of possible gain. He will accept bold risks if his basic horse sense, of which he has plenty, tells him they are sound...
...troops he wrote: "As a matter of honest reporting, it must be said that those left behind behave in a manner that is touched with quiet dignity. They do not have the hangdog look, and they do not give the impression that they want, or would even accept, sympathy. They give the appearance of people who have not lost either a belief in themselves or their dignity...
...Kremlin strategy in the Polish question had been basically simple. It was: to tire out both the London Poles and the Allies by patiently insisting on a solution which the Poles could not accept. Since Russia was in possession and had the power, she could afford patience...