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Word: acceptably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opium smoking. But since the election was the first of its kind in Chinese history, and since no polls were open in Communist areas, the turnout was rather small. Finally, since more than 95% of the Chinese people can neither read nor write, many a voter had to accept help in marking his ballot from friendly fellows who hung around the polls. It was going to take a week or ten days to tabulate the results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: First (and Last?) Election | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...Cream for Ivan. Poland was among the first nations to accept the Marshall Plan "in principle" last June, and the Communists, like other Poles, were disappointed when the Kremlin told them to reverse themselves and decline the invitation to the Paris conference. Ships flying the flags of 14 nations were in Gdynia the day I landed. But even Poland's ports are not entirely her own. The former German Swinemunde, now Swinoujscie, has thousands of Red fleet sailors. One of the few Polish sailors I saw there said sourly: "This is a Soviet base." Swinoujscie's ice-cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Plan Fulfillment | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...battle against the church may not come for years, until the Communists have consolidated everything else. Poland's Communist President Bierut has stated that the question of whether the present religious freedom will be continued "depends on the attitude of the clergy; on whether they will accept the state of things existing in Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Plan Fulfillment | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...25th time in 25 years, Pastor Max Sanders last week offered his resignation. If one member voted to accept it, he explained as usual, he would resign. Max Sanders is still pastor of Valley Christian Church, near Louisville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Banker in the Pulpit | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Speaking for the Arabs, Isam S. Kheiry '51, of Jaffa, Palostine, said, "It is very terrible. I will not accept it." He believed the Zionists would quarrel and cause foreign intervention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zionists Link with Palestine Colony, Rejoice at Partition | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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