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Word: admit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iron Curtain was raised dramatically last week to admit eight of Britain's top Socialists, who stepped through happy in the conviction that their hosts would really show them something worth seeing, convinced that they themselves could not be fooled, and appalled that anyone might think that the Communists could make fine propaganda use of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRON CURTAIN: The Sightseers | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...diabetes, not only lacks curative powers, but may give the user severe skin eruptions. So reported Dr. William H. Kaufman, after a study of six skin cases in Roanoke, Va. He added that such skin ailments may be hard to diagnose, since most alfalfa-tea enthusiasts are ashamed to admit that they drink the brew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Jul. 26, 1954 | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...Geoffrey Jefferson of Manchester, one of the world's top brain surgeons, faced up to the fundamental question of what is sleep, and had to admit that nobody really knows. But it is definitely not the same as unconsciousness: for man it appears to be a conditioned reflex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sleepy Talk | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...question arose on the Senate floor just after Sir Winston Churchill had sailed for home. Up Pennsylvania Avenue, from the White House, came word that Prime Minister Churchill had told President Eisenhower that there may be a British-supported drive to admit Red China to the U.N. this fall. Dwight Eisenhower snapped out a firm, quick reply: the U.S. is more opposed than ever to giving China's U.N. seat to the Reds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Bipartisan Position | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...positions remain as they are today, then it is our clear duty to say so to the world and to admit that we have failed. I say this with infinite regret, but it is our stern duty to face realities." In London the Foreign Office hinted that now Britain would be willing to press ahead with plans for a Southeast Asia pact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENEVA: Bitter Facts | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

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