Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Czechs had not expected the crisis before April. But last week's development handed Gottwald an early opportunity. He at once demanded that he be allowed to form a new cabinet from among leaders of half a dozen Communist stooge groups. Benes refused. But he also refused to accept the resignations of the non-Communist ministers. Said he: "I have my duty to convince the politicians and the political parties to work together...
Only the "persistent request" for Professor Friedrich's assistance by General Clay led him to accept the appointment. Anxious to do "everything I can to make peace possible," he believes, "This will help...
Careful Course. The committee bill steered a careful course between what Europe could accept and what the U.S. felt it needed as assurance that ERP would not be a running drain on the U.S. taxpayer. The bill did not attempt to ram conditions down Europe's throat. It simply expressed "the hope . . . that these countries through a joint organization will exert sustained common efforts which will speed the achievement of that economic cooperation which is essential for lasting peace and prosperity...
...Jackson: "No one will question that this power is the most dangerous one to free government in the whole catalogue of powers. . . . In this case, the Government urged hasty decisions to forestall some emergency . . . and pleads that paralysis will result if its claims to power are denied. . . . I cannot accept the argument that war powers last as long as the effect and consequences of war, for if so they are permanent-as permanent as the war debts...
...Accept the Virtues. In the first place, he argues, science enjoys "a total lack of authoritarianism . . . accomplished by one of the most exacting of intellectual disciplines. [The scientist] learns the possibility of error very early. He learns that there are ways to correct his mistakes; he learns the futility of trying to conceal them...