Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sober Dallas News suggested cautiously that Negroes might perhaps be given "their fair and just political and economic rights along with segregation. . . . The Court's ruling will have its profound effect. We might as well accept it as a warning...
Patience! he said to the people of the U.S. Why has the U.S. not cracked down harder and sooner on Axis-aiding neutrals? "Our power was limited. They and we have continually been forced to accept compromises. . . . But that period, I believe, is rapidly drawing to a close...
...German units changed their route again & again, wasted men and precious time. Zhukov began to push them off the roads, compel them to accept battle in swamps. The orderly retreat had been turned into flight. Heavy equipment was left behind. Supply trains clogged up the roads...
...Washington has known for months that General George C. Marshall is actively annoyed and embarrassed by recurrent Marshall-for-President talk. Last week the Chief of Staff was credited with a quotation rivaling General William Tecumseh Sherman's famous "I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected." The New York Herald Tribune's Bert Andrews reported that "friends" of General Marshall say that if he were "in a position to talk about the topic" he would declare: "I'll be in my grave before I'll be in politics...
Professor Becker is mellow, reasonable, and willing to work with anyone within a certain "area of agreement." He would probably be willing to accept most of Mr. Jones's proposals for streamlining the State Department and for a beneficent democratic "dynamism" in foreign affairs. But Professor Becker quietly and unobtrusively suggests that an international economic order presupposes an abatement of the social conflict inside nations. No doubt Mr. Jones would go along with Carl Becker on this. But neither author can tell how the trick is to be turned. Neither can they tell how to prevent civil war from...