Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsman at the conference knew it was in the works. They tried to make Hoffman confirm it. He sat-a benign-faced man with bright blue eyes, protruding underlip and long nose-ducking an answer. The newsmen buzzed after him out the office door. Someone asked if he would accept the job if it were offered. Said Hoffman imperturbably: "The first thing I would do would be to phone my wife in Pasadena. She usually tells me what to do." Then he fled...
...never known a politician like Roy Lundy. Salty, 70-year-old Mr. Lundy, a lumberman, got into politics by accident. Two months ago, he went to a police station to bail out one of his truck drivers who had been arrested for reckless driving. The police refused to accept his check for $100. This made Lundy so mad at the city administration that he resolved then & there to run for mayor...
Voluntary Conformity. To the Labor Government, however, the new tax was not only an attractively easy way of raising a lot of money, but a soak-the-rich sop to trade unionists whom it has asked to accept wage freezes (TIME, Feb. 16). Fortified by Marshall Plan aid, which Cripps hailed as "a light and hope to the freedom-loving peoples of the world," Britain's Socialist Government felt that it was safely over some of the political rough spots, too. Russia's grab for Europe had rallied even most left-wing Laborite rebels behind the government...
...tone of the day was set by Philosopher J. B. Kozak, who taught at Ohio's Oberlin College in World War II. Said Kozak, obviously not speaking for his 17 purged colleagues: "We accept the direction taken by this great development [i.e., the Communist coup]." Then President Eduard Benes gave the university a new charter to replace the one that the Germans had destroyed, and made a pathetic little speech about freedom. Outside, in the public square, amplifiers relayed the catch in Benes' voice. There were more cops than citizens in the square...
...recording its disapproval of a University subsidy, suggested that an advertising campaign "could be handled by a good advertising agency" to raise money for the trips. It further authorized the Bend to present a concert in the Yard in May, at which a table might be set up to accept contributions...