Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevens had to admit that he had spent an inordinate amount of time and effort "cooperating" with McCarthy & Co. By his use of newspaper headlines in the Monmouth case, McCarthy got Stevens in a position where McCarthy could and did interfere with the functioning of the executive branch of the Government...
...Ruefully admitting that "the lawyers on both sides find they are Harvard graduates," Pusey added, "I do not want to admit it, but I have to, this private also went to Harvard...
Correlation's Jockey Shoemaker was also a little skeptical about his horse before the race. All closemouthed Willie would admit was that Correlation is "a big horse with plenty of speed, a horse that can come from behind." As it turned out, Willie called the race...
...there is something illusory about the millions of dollars received in investment return, and Cabot is the first to admit it. For one thing, the huge numbers sometimes deter would-be benefactors from giving to an institution which they think--mistakenly--does not need the money...
...conormity" which would exclude communism from the marketplace of ideas. In arguing for this movement, the authors seem unaware that the real danger of excluding any area of thought from society, is the likelihood that conformity will be extended. Unconsciously, Buckley and Bozell reveal this threat, when they admit that extreme liberals may fall outside the pale of respectability. The most disquieting quote from their book catches the dangers of McCarthyism in dramatic form: "Someday the patience of America may at last be exhausted and we will strike out against the Liberals. Not because they are treacherous like Communists...