Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after Japan joined the Axis in 1940 did he lose hope that the moderates might regain power. Then he knew that Japanese policy for an indefinite future had been summed up in a Jap statement made at a Dutch shipping conference: "How can we compromise when you refuse to accept our views?" To the State Department he sent one cautionary telegram after another. Ten months before Pearl Harbor, he warned Washington: "There is a lot of talk around town to the effect that the Japanese, in case of a break with the United States, are planning...
Europe's smaller nations-Belgium, The Netherlands, et al-which had their own plans, felt that they had been ignored. Gaullist France, never willing to accept a place with "small nations," was also to be heard from. And so were the Germans...
...also has the critics: Mexico's music critics takes a dim and lofty view of music that U.S. critics accept with mild applause. Last month Conductor Leopold Stokowski, who is not accustomed to rough handling, got an abrasive going-over by Mexico City's music critics: he had the temerity to offer Mexicanos lush popular arrangements...
...State Department was sure that the Villarroel regime had the backing of the Nazis or of Argentina's nationalists. "Prove it!" cried the Bolivians. But the State Department persisted in nonrecognition, so far has kept all Latin nations except Argentina from accepting the Villarroel Government. Enraged by this pressure, Brazil and Uruguay have urged the State Department to give way, accept Villarroel & Co. as worthy Good Neighbors. The Bolivians protest that they have been condemned without hearing, that the U.S. has ignored their many attempts to prove their good will. Say they, quoting the Gospel of St. John...
...those who knew Wainwright knew that he would accept his fate with the stoicism of a professional soldier. Though he might look back on the events which had landed him behind barbed Wire with bitterness, he could look back on the life of Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright without shame...