Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program, and a feeble but expensive practical joke by this station on the veteran. Incidentally, as we expected, the statue was mutilated when it arrived, the head having been broken off the body. No doubt we might have said nothing and have embarrassed the express company by refusing to accept the statue when it arrived, thus creating just the kind of argument the stunt program wanted...
...General of UNO, the U.S. delegation had first put forward the name of Canada's Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, though they knew the Russians would not stand for a North American. The Russians advanced the names of two obscure eastern Europeans, although they knew the U.S. would not accept a Soviet stooge. Lie was the serious candidate of both the Americans and the Russians, although each thought the other would object...
...democracy doesn't everyone accept the people's vote? The wide eyes widened. "You know, I've read about people like you, but I have never met one. We don't believe in allowing fascists to use democratic machinery in order later to destroy it. We have seen what it brings. We want democracy, but if any fascist gets elected by hoodwinking the people, we'll shoot the sonofabitch, like this-" And Stenia swung her Tommy gun around as if firing a deadly burst...
Letters have been sent to the leaders of the American Veterans Committee, Amvets, American Kegion, and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Thomas L.P. O'Donnell '46, president of the Council, stated that he had asked the organizations to send the best men available, if top executives were unable to accept the invitations...
...Considine's, Crowther's kept on running. After hasty conferences, the Mirror's Editor Jack Lait tossed the Considine piece out of his later Sunday editions, and New Yorkers heard no more about Considine Parts II, III AND IV. Obviously the Crowther pieces (TRUMAN DIDDING U.S.TO ACCEPT MARXIAN IDEAS ) were the new official Hearst line. Crowed Crowther: "Hearst edited it himself...