Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reluctantly, but as a good soldier, I repeat that I will accept and serve in this office, if I am so ordered by the Commander in Chief of us all-the sovereign people of the United States...
...till, the purple-and-green invasion currency brought in by the Allies mingles with old Bank of France notes. At first most shopkeepers worried because the printing on the new currency said only that the money was issued in France, named no guarantor. Now Mme. Chideu and her customers accept the Allied notes without question. Only the higher-ups still fret...
Last week Gandhi suddenly reversed himself-or seemed to. He sent word to Jinnah that he was willing to accept the principle of Hindu-Moslem separation, let the people in mixed areas decide by plebiscite. It was not Pakistan, it was hedged with qualifications, but it was a momentous concession for Gandhi to make...
Said Pastor Low: "To take white youngsters off the city streets is ordinary, but to accept Negro youngsters in the home isn't done every day. . . . It's going to be a worth-while project for us church folk who are quite content to give money and to say prayers so long as neither bring these people too close or cause us too much personal effort...
Walter Lippmann shrewdly pointed out one basic flaw in Taft's reasoning: that other nations may actually refuse to accept the direct U.S. loans which are Taft's alternative to the Fund-Bank proposals...