Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, another American neighbor turned on him. Guatemala refused to accept the ambassador proposed by Trujillo, formally broke relations with the Dominican Republic. Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo, who never forgets that his country got rid of its own dictator, General Jorge Ubico, in 1944, pointed a democratic finger of scorn. Trujillo, he said, had corrupted "republican practices into monarchical practices." With rigged elections like last May's, he added, Dictator Trujillo could rule "for the next four centuries...
Then came what to Farley was "the final shock." Roosevelt said: "By the way, Jim, the family is not going to the convention. Undoubtedly I will accept the nomination by radio and will arrange to talk to the delegates before they leave the convention hall after the nomination...
...looked as though all invited Western European countries would accept. Cried Ernie Bevin at a London Fourth of July celebration: "Thank you for defeating us and producing as a result the wonderful United States of America. You can have your Revolution, your Bunker Hills and your Yorktowns, but nothing will ever separate...
...pigs and cash. ... As it has worked out this year, the 'official funds' to be paid by one mu [one-sixth of an acre] of land actually exceed the value of the total crop which that mu can yield. As a result, nobody in the village will accept any land, even as a gift. So land is going idle...
Control, austerity, plainness, and tight lips are the very stuff of England today; if is difficult to visualise such a life existing in any other country. Accustomed to thinking of the British as always restrained, we tend to accept their present condition as natural and bearable. But it is, not, and the dull shock of tired nerves is beginning to spread, like battle fatigue after the excitement of combat wears off. The surface annoyances of life are so great, the bareness of the next few years so obvious, that one is amazed at the basic popularity of the government...