Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the soil of China, an intelligent project can be prepared only on the basis of an estimate of the time it will take to win the war. American military experts believe that this may take as long as three years. The Chinese are more optimistic. But let us accept the American estimate and try to sketch a Three Year Plan and estimate its cost...
...with the North sea equivalent of a typhoon approaching is almost credible. The naval officer going along against his better judgment is somewhat less credible. But when they are being swept into a whirlpool with the engine completely waterlogged, it requires a stretch of the audience's credulity to accept a last minute repair job that permits the boat to chug blithely away from the whirling maelstrom. Similarly, the happy ending never would have happened had Joan Webster remained in character as the girl who intended to marry for wealth rather than love. Either Miss Webster really didn't know...
...wished to entrust the destiny of the country to new rulers, I decided to withdraw. Now in spite of the dictatorship which forbids freedom of speech, you have revealed to me the whole picture of your miseries. In your distress you came to me. Answering your appeal, I accept the mission which you entrust to me and I am ready to contact the French authorities. I shall exert the full weight of my authority to mediate in the conflict which has put you one against the other...
...losing the good will of the people of Europe by our failure to make it clear that it is the free state we stand for as against the police state. We have nearly convinced them that our bread is not for the starving but for the hungry who will accept our economic way of life...
...Please accept my congratulations on your mature, clear-sighted editorial of last Friday. Intellectuals must recognize, despite any differences they may have with his program, that "by questioning the omniscience of the policy-makers of the moment, Mr. Wallace is fulfilling one of the most valuable functions in our society...