Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...April 13, 1942, the President vested in BEW complete control of all public-purchase import operations. Mr. Jones has never been willing to accept that fact. He has instead done much to harass the administrative employes of the board in their single-minded effort to help shorten this...
...results of the Jap fanaticism stagger the imagination. The very violence of the scene is incomprehensible to the Western mind. Here groups of men had met their self-imposed obligation, to die rather than accept capture, by blowing them selves to bits. I saw one Jap sitting impaled on a bayonet which was stuck through his back, evidently by a friend. All the other suicides had chosen the grenade. Most of them simply held grenades against their stomachs or chests. The explosive charge blasted away their vital organs. Probably one in four held a grenade against his head. There were...
...Gaulle arrived in North Africa in May, Peyrouton found public opinion veering away from Giraud. He decided to switch sides. He approached an influential colonial family with contacts in the De Gaullist camp. A plan was devised. Peyrouton would send a letter of resignation to De Gaulle, who would accept, give Peyrouton an army commission. Later, his good faith and patriot ism established, Peyrouton would be returned to civil office...
...national scandal and the making of a ghastly tragedy. . . . Subsidies are the tangled net in which a free people become so enmeshed that they become helpless pawns of a dominating centralized Government." Administration talk of inflation seemed to Mr. Sexauer just a "bogeyman to induce a nation to accept social reform, regimentation, limitation of opportunity and incentive...
Since rice is the world's No. 1 grain (in the number of people it feeds), the Huzenlaub process may well prove to be one of the most important food discoveries in years. The U.S. rice-milling industry, still loath to accept it, has denied Harwell's firm membership in the Rice Millers' Association, claims that the new process is no better than several others by which milled rice is impregnated with vitamins. But millers in 36 countries are now licensed to use the Huzenlaub process. Only country turned down so far: Japan...