Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have on several occasions announced I was not a candidate for the position. ... To make my position unequivocal ... I do not covet it, nor would I accept...
While not so forceful as General William Tecumseh Sherman's famed renunciation, this seemed equally binding. Two weeks before, General MacArthur had said only that "I have not sought the office nor do I seek it," which presumably still left him free to accept a Presidential draft. Perhaps after the unauthorized publication of the General's letters to Nebraska's New Deal-hating Congressman Arthur Lewis Miller (TIME, April 24), his Presidential boomlet had collapsed irreparably...
...Office. One riddle remained: would the men of the mountains, the guerrillas of the Communist-led EAM and the middle-road EDES, linked now in a committee of liberation that might become a government any day, accept Papandreou as a genuine member of the resistance movement? Or would they say that he had knuckled under to the King to get himself the premiership? Papandreou had dropped a puzzling remark: "Greek politics have changed. We are no longer royalists or republicans. Just nationalists or extreme left-wingers." The committeemen of the mountains were in touch with Tito of Yugoslavia...
Handsome Johnnie's death had brought new life to his home. In Lissie, Texas, his brother and five sisters were finally living in a home of their own, bought with Johnnie's death benefits. His parents were readying for a trip to Washington, at Government expense, to accept Johnnie's medal from the President...
...Even those who have been most critical of De Gaulle the man, those who fear that De Gaulle has undemocratic ambitions, see that there is no way out but to accept him and his organization as A Necessary Expedient. It is as plain as day that the more De Gaulle is opposed and ignored by the Anglo-Americans, the more unbending and unyielding De Gaulle & Co. become, and the more of a symbol he becomes in France. Almost everyone agrees that if Roosevelt tempered his obstinacy on the question of De Gaulle, the chances for a successful liberation of France...