Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quite as important as...age is...marital state. No experienced patient will admit to being unhappily married or, far worse, divorced; for she well knows the automatic train of thought such an admission will set in motion: a divorced woman is a misunderstood woman; a misunderstood woman is an unsatisfied woman; a woman who cannot lead a full sex life will clearly suffer damage in body and soul. This chain of reasoning cannot be broken-not even by an assurance that one is leading the life of a wanton...
Lois Dickson '54, President of the Student Council, challenged Reinert's statements about student opinion. "Last springs's poll by the News was hardly accurate," she commented. "The question asked was 'Would you like an 11 o'clock sign-out?,' and even the News will admit that no strong consideration was given...
...even to increase the salaries of the judges during their term in office, lest the possibility of such action stand as a temptation to curry Congressional favor. In the moving phrasing of those times, the purpose was to make the judges "as independent as the lot of humanity will admit...
...interestedness but what defeated litigants will think, and others who may be disappointed by the Court's decisions on the explosive issues which are about to come before it. Will they believe that the decision is that of judges "as independent as the lot of humanity will admit," if the decisive vote is cast by a Chief Justice whose job depends, among other things, on his surviving thereafter the raking fire of confirmation hearings...
...months we lived under the Communists in China. Constantly students came to me, asking: "What does America think of this?" "What will America do about this?" I had to admit that I did not know. They never had to ask that about Russia. Everyone knew...