Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...placed it reverently against his forehead in the Arab sign of deference. There was more hand-kissing as Abdullah inspected the Iraq ist Brigade, which had just arrived to reinforce his Arab Legion. Said Abdullah: "I shall enter Palestine after May 15 ... even if the Arab League decides to accept armistice proposals...
...front-with no back and no sides to it." Sometimes a road may be quite peaceful; the next moment it may be swept with gunfire. Even with Arab, Jewish and British press cards, it is a problem to get people on the spot to accept you. In the Arab quarter of the old city, for example, unless you have an armed escort from the Arabs' national headquarters, you might be fired on, attacked by a crowd as a Jewish spy, or arrested. It is difficult to switch from one side to another (after May 15 it may be impossible...
...Class of 1948 will decide today whether to accept or reject a Permanent Constitution offered to it by its Class Committee, first marshal Ray A. Goldberg (above) announced last night. The voting will take place in House dining halls at noon and evening meals...
...hour has come to choose our friends. The problem is clear ... If Europe with her traditions of hard work, her artistic, intellectual and moral traditions, wants to make herself heard, she must organize. Men are ready to accept this idea of organization, but they find it difficult to execute because they have not always the necessary courage to accept sacrifices. Those who think of Western Union as a panacea are wrong, terribly wrong, so wrong they will never have the courage to succeed with this policy which is first based on sacrifices...
William Randolph Hearst, long ailing at his Beverly Hills home, didn't come downstairs on his 85th birthday to accept the Air Force's meritorious service award (son Randolph accepted for him). Later on he struggled down to look at his cake...