Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LONDON--There are large poster scattered through London, proclaiming that "We Work or Want," and calling for yet another example of the old "British Grit." Americans, seeing them, and already impressed with the tired fight of the British people against war's nasty afterbirth, accept them as one more indication of the austere and lean life in 1947 England. But an interesting reaction seems to be setting in among the British themselves. "England is not so badly off" is a common answer to sympathetic questions about conditions, and there seems to be a new resentment of American pity...
...shortage was definitely averted last night when the United Mine Workers policy committee ratified a new wage contract, which will send the minors back to work after it has been officially signed today with the northern operators. The contract is "national," meaning that operators all over the country must accept it before their men will return to the mines...
...They brought up the name of a secretary with access to confidential memoranda, who had been hobnobbing with local Reds and the Soviet Embassy staff for months. State's only action, they said, had been to call in the secretary, ask her if she was a Communist and accept her denial...
...miss a chance to get a lot for a little, play the horses heavily. In sports-mad Brisbane, the favorite race-track bet is a long-shot version of the U.S. daily double-a combined long-odds bet on two races. Some bookmakers, known as "doubles fielders" will not accept bets of any other kind...
...Matter of Sentiment. In Los Angeles, a rummaging detective found a pair of brass knuckles in the home of Edna Franklin, had to accept her explanation that they were treasured family heirlooms handed down by her dear departed mother...