Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better opportunity . . . than we have had before," Acheson declared. "We most certainly are now in a better position to deal with the consequences of a failure . . . We cannot allow [our foreign policy] to become subject to the fluctuations produced by a raising and lowering of the international temperature. To accept these fluctuations as a guide for our policy would be to put in foreign hands a large measure of control over the conduct of our foreign relations...
...Alexander Stephen Clay was a U.S. Senator from 1897 to 1910). A few minutes later General Clay sat in a Pentagon press conference, firing answers at newsmen as fast as they could write them down. (Would Germany ally herself with Russia? ". . . Only if the Western powers [were] unwilling to accept Germany back into the community of nations." The future of East-West relations? "I don't think we should ever forget that this is a real struggle between democracy and communism-and that it is going to continue for many years...
...present the three fired professors have appealed their cases to the American Association of University Professors. If their appeals are successful, the University must rehire them or become a "censured administration." Top men, as a rule, do not accept positions in institutions on this censured list...
Closing his statement to the faculty, Strand said, "Many men in Soviet Russia have died in concentration camps, or by other means, because they would not accept the untruths which Ralph Spitzer has chosen to espouse . . . Dialectical materialism! A better name would be dialectical murder. The case is closed to far as I am concerned...
...group expressed regret at leaving Olivet, but in letters of resignation the instructors attacked Ashby for his alleged anti-Semitic speech and charged the administration with "during key personnel, absence of an adequate tenure system, attacks on faculty members, abandoning democratic procedures, and failure to accept arbitration...