Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the downstairs celebrants had gone home in dejection. Then Tom Dewey and his wife came out to see newsmen. He read a statement: "It's clear that Mr. Roosevelt had been re-elected for a fourth term, and every good American will wholeheartedly accept the will of the people. ... [I devoutly] hope that in the difficult years ahead, divine Providence will guide and protect the President of the United States...
Five days later the Political Bureau* of the French Communist Party refused to accept the order, but the Cabinet's two Communists held on to their jobs...
...situation, something unexpected happened. Something like an ultimatum was delivered to the Generalissimo, insisting that he give Stilwell full command of the Chinese armies. Whatever may have been its justification, it was a proposition that no self-respecting head of a state, at war more than seven years, could accept...
Well did Winston Churchill know that Premier Mikolajczyk's return to Poland implied a split in the Polish Government in Exile. General Kasimierz Sosnkowski and other London Poles who refused to accept a Russian-dominated Poland were reported to have bought properties in Brazil, where they planned to go into permanent exile. General Bor (indicted by Lublin as a traitor) and his Partisans -the only other organized anti-Russian group-were in even more permanent exile in German prison camps...
...would have to go through a period of desolation much worse than that caused by the revolution, the civil war and famine in Russia, but that after that a period of unbroken happiness and stability would follow, Freud answered: 'Let's make it 50-50. I will accept the first half.' " Some years after his only visit to the U.S. in 1909, he remarked: "America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success...