Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want this nomination in the first place . . . but once nominated he had to accept. That Mr. Dewey put up a good fight, an efficient fight, and an honest fight cannot be denied by any one, and his salesmanship in the subject he was selling was indomitable...
...attitude that may be an unfortunate reflection, of China's physical blockade. On the other hand they are the last persons to have any illusion of the Communists being angels of democracy, as many of China's critics would like us to believe. No thinking person would accept the supposition that any Communist regime could be less totalitarian than any other form of government...
...little news, but his schedule of visitors was the most pack-jammed in many a week: admirals, generals, senators, congressmen, foreign envoys, plain citizens like Bernard Baruch, Henry Kaiser. He kept newsmen in suspense on the date and place of the upcoming meeting of the Big Three. Would he accept General de Gaulle's invitation to Paris? Perhaps, some day, when he had more time...
Back at his Paris desk the French leader found a message, just arrived from Moscow: Marshal Stalin could not at present accept General de Gaulle's invitation to visit Paris. But would General de Gaulle care to call on Marshal Stalin at the Kremlin...
...mere inventor, not a scientist, quit in 1885 when Edison refused to pay $50,000 Tesla thought he had been promised for his work. In 1912 Tesla refused the Nobel prize because it was to be shared with Edison. Only after long argument was Tesla prevailed upon to accept the Edison Medal for his achievements...