Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inventor from California who has spent half of his time since 1921 in Europe McClatchie recently wrote "The Dictator" as a protest against the Administration's foreign policy. He said that because no publisher would accept his material, he had a few copies of the book mimeographed to be distributed among local book sellers...
...Must we not accept the responsibility that, fully armed and prepared to fight if need be, we must become a responsible power in the world, that we must in collaboration with the others who hold roughly our same ideals, organize a large portion of the civilized world in such a way that we may continue to prosper as a national unity and develop the potentialities of our nation...
...which had declared for him along with most of French Equatorial Africa, straight from his failure at Dakar. Despite that fiasco, he still had hope. Said he: "I cite Hitler's words from Mein Kampf that a people may be beaten, but when a people and their leaders accept defeat, then they are forever lost. On the other hand, if a handful of men do not accept defeat, everything is to be hoped for. The Cameroons will have a place in the history of this war and the history of the nation...
...drink beer with beer drinkers. Of women he said: "Conduct religious conversations only with aristocratic women, and never with the door shut." More than any other Catholic fathers, the Jesuits are at home in the drawing rooms of the rich and great. But the order forbids its members to accept ecclesiastical honors, keeps them quietly and efficiently on the move, their minds sharp, their spirits obedient, their black-cassocked persons unattached to any one locality. Its Superior General (at present Polish Wlodimir Ledochowski) is elected for life, is often called the "Black Pope" because he wears a black habit...
...destroyers to England in exchange for a few naval bases. The destroyers have made their journey and have forgotten. Whether the barter was constitutional has never been settled upon by any branch of the government except the executive. The Congress, supposedly the representative body of the nation, had to accept the trade. Mr. Roosevelt seemed to ignore the Neutrality Law which definitely states that the United States is a neutral nation and will not give any military aid to a warring country. Congress passed this act and Congress had the vote of the people behind it. The boats were only...