Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be difficult for Southern liberals to admit to themselves that with the legal rejection of the separate but equal doctrine there is no longer a middle ground between the reactionaries who oppose and the progressives who support complete human equality. Because of their role as spokesmen for the white South, the Southern liberals have retained the confidence and acceptance of their Southern neighbors. Thus they can now take the initiative in working for the immediate implementation of legal reforms-if they are genuinely sincere in wanting the political, economic, and cultural equality of all American citizens...
Many critics of the Government's personnel security program admit that its flaws show up less in the wording of Executive Order 10450, which sets the standards and procedures, than in the way the program is carried out. Last week Attorney General Herbert Brownell announced a new set of procedures to reduce the number of unfair deeds committed by security officers and boards in the name of "Ten-Four-Fifty." President Eisenhower approved Brownell's recommendations and ordered them put into effect. The new rules...
White Feather (Panoramic; 20th Century-Fox). "Never," scream the ads for this western, "has the screen dared so boldly to cross the boundary lines of color and intolerance!" Indeed, in this picture, only six months after the production code was broadened to admit the subject - and only 3,000 years or so after Solomon entertained the Queen of Sheba - a Hollywood studio has dared to take up the question of miscegenation. The subject has been filmed before, of course, notably in Pinky, the story of an affair between a white man and a Negro girl; but in White Feather...
...midst of a vicious battle for a strongpoint. When Roget lets his driver die without trying to save him, and fails even to comfort the dying, the colonel's contempt becomes withering. Then, piled onto his knowledge of his own unworthiness, Roget is forced to admit to himself that he is tempted by the nymphomaniac wife of an American missionary...
...apparent. First there was the admission, by an Air Force "security risk" firings were actually probationary employees fired for non-security reasons. Still more upsetting were the continued recantations of Harvey Matusow, Marie Natvig, and Lowell Watson, three former $25-a-day witnesses for the Justice Department who now admit that they lied in their incriminating testimony against suspected Communists. Is it this same type of witness, one wonders, that the Department is shielding when it refuses to let an accused employee confront his accuser...