Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liaison officer rushed a copy of the occupation statute to the deadlocked constitutional assembly at Bonn, with an urgent appeal from the Western Foreign Ministers to accept it and get cracking with their draft of a German constitution...
...will accept without evasion the severest punishment, even to the extent of being boiled in oil or having my physical self dismembered into many parts as a so-called war criminal . . . Cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party is most urgently required . . . I hope now to convert the hostilities into peace and save the people. My heart is as clear as pure water...
Miss Driscoll urged police to arrest teenage offenders, but her main attack was against the taverns serving them. She declared that police would no longer accept excuses from propriotors who say they were hoodwinked by minors with false birth certificates...
Brier cited cases of minors using false birth certificates, draft cards, and even club membership cards to get drinks. Bars often accept these proofs even when they are obviously fake, he said, and sometimes ask no proof...
Senate 5 was defeated on the House floor once before, when the body voted on March 15 to accept a committee recommendation to withdraw the measure. Only expert parliamentary maneuvering by Senator Melley saved the bill in the upper chamber. However, by delaying renewal of the discussion until this week, the House has given Toomey time to strengthen his forces, and another vote may be close. Though the "Citizens Committee" has only one known member, Miss Spencer, and is not registered officially as a lobby at the State House, it may be able to change many votes during this well...