Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greek Orthodox churches in the country were fired or defaced; some 300 persons were injured. It became evident that the Turkish government had not wanted to halt the violence or-worse from a standpoint of stability in a NATO country-had been unable to stem it. "I must admit," said Menderes, "that we were exposed to a national catastrophe, the object of a real attack by surprise." Western diplomats were also slow to realize how deep and serious was the revulsion in Greece. The Greek government went so far as to charge that the bombing that touched off the affair...
...some intellectuals got religion; others followed Jean-Paul Sartre into leftwing, atheistic existentialism. Camus, however, tries to escape both from the existentialists ("Negation is their God") and from God. Things would be for the best in the worst of all possible worlds, says Camus, on one condition: man must admit that life has meaning only when he recognizes that it has no meaning. Man's fate, according to Camus, is best symbolized by Sisyphus, the Greek hero who was condemned by the gods to roll a great boulder to the top of a hill. The gods...
Margarita will not comment on individuals: "We try to watch for individual speed and reactions," he protests, "but it is too early." For the group as a whole, the coach does admit that '59 is larger in the line than '58, but adds that the backfield may be smaller...
...father, Edwin Goodman, who made Bergdorf Goodman the leading fashion store it is today, could read your Sept. 5 story on the Dior opening, he would be uncomfortably amused at the statement attributed to him regarding fashion imports [". . . You won't get any American designers to admit they have copied anything."]. But Edwin Goodman, who founded this firm . . . died two years...
...Individuals, purged by congressional "inquisitions," are condemned, no matter what they answer to the questions fired at them. If a witness were to admit to having once belonged to the Communist Party, he is immediately a social outcast, no matter what the reasons for his membership, or his severance, unless, of course, he turns into a Louis Budenz and "rats" on others who are members of the party. In the latter situation, our erstwhile patriot becomes a national hero. If our witness invokes the Fifth Amendment, he is then automatically found guilty-by his silence ... If he claims...