Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago the Federal Communications Commission discovered that Georgia's wirehaired, rabble-rousing Representative Gene ("Goober") Cox had received a $2,500 gift of stock from radio station WALB (Atlanta, Ga.), after helping the station get its license from FCC. (By law, Congressmen are forbidden to accept fees for practicing before Government bureaus.) Ever since then, Gene Cox has tried to tear FCC apart...
...Wright "was producing and causing the Government to accept defective and substandard material, by the falsification of tests, by destruction of records, by forging inspection reports...
...Negroes. Mixed bands are nothing new on records, or even in a few New York spots, but what impressed me was that Joe Wagon bach, proprietor of the Hofbrau, and the polyracial population of Lawrence, a town busily engaged in defense work even as Detroit, Beaumont, and Mobile, accept the band strictly on its merit, with no comment one way or another on the fact that it is a black-and-white band and will stay that way. And business, incidentally is good...
...greater struggle reaching back through the Nationalist Revolution of 1927 and the Republican Revolution of 1911 to the Opium War of 1840. In the chronicle of that struggle it will be recorded that only in the sixth year of the war against the Jap did the West finally accept China into the comity of the nations on a stage of equality...
...Record. "We entered [the war] of our own free will, without ourselves being directly assaulted. . . . We seek no profit, we want no territory or aggrandizement, we expect no reward and we will accept no compromise. . . . Against the triumphant might of Hitler, with the greedy Italian at his tail, we stood alone, with resources so slender that one shudders to enumerate them even...