Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on your obituary of Colonel McCormick [April 11]. While I, a onetime Chicago resident, frequently disagreed with the colonel, I admired him with no tongue-in-the-cheek attitude. He was a great individualist; even his enemies admit that his breed of rapidly vanishing Americans is sorely needed in the rapidly spreading regimentation of citizens in these United States, once dedicated to the rights of the individual...
...refused to admit that Communist expansion was anything like colonialism. The European satellites "are sovereign nations in the United Nations. How can we consider them colonial territories?" And what about Guatemala? "Is that not an example of another kind of colonialism?" he demanded. "I am not saying that it is. How can we decide which country is subjugated and which...
...last day of the conference Chou, in simple, unadorned language, delivered a speech that was a masterpiece of diplomatic dexterity. Skillfully, he conveyed the impression of a man of candor with nothing to conceal, a man of principle who was not apologizing for his convictions but ready to admit other views were possible. If some delegates were wary of the term "peaceful coexistence" as a Communist phrase, "we can then change the term," said Chou, suggesting the U.N. charter phrase "live together in peace." China was opposed to "formation of ever more antagonistic military alliances," but he recognized others might...
Several things counteract these advantages, however, instructors admit. Adults are less fluent with abstract concepts in general and have usually forgotten the techniques of learning developed and practiced in college or school days. In language course they find it more difficult to memorize, although that may be an advantage in other studies, one teacher observed. Many adults, unaccustomed to class recitations, are even more reluctant to participate than most reticent undergraduates. "And a leader of industry doesn't relish correction by a professor half his age," one professor commented...
...Wall Street Financier Patrick B. McGinnis, who won control of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad a year ago and now was out after control of the B. & M. But he dominated the meeting nevertheless. Even before B. & M. officials counted the proxies, they were ready to admit defeat. Both Board Chairman Edward S. French and President Timothy G. Sughrue resigned in expectation of a McGinnis victory; they were afraid that if they stayed on and were fired, they would lose their pension rights. They acted wisely. In the counting, McGinnis and his group won easily...