Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been President," Truman explained. "We believe that anybody can be President of the United States, and that when he is through, he can go back to being just anybody again ... I can't say that I feel exactly that way about it, but I admit that I may be somewhat prejudiced...
...over the U.S. last week, millions of Americans-male and female-were locked in the battle of the bulge. A recent Gallup poll showed that 34 million Americans admit to being overweight; the American Medical Association has described obesity as America's No. i health problem, noting a far higher death rate among the overweight. Result: a boom in diet charts, low-calorie foods, and a new, "nonfattening" sales campaign by the U.S. food and beverage industries...
Room for Improvement. Much of the increased respect with which CIA is now regarded in Washington is directly attributable to Smith and Allen Dulles. But Dulles himself is the first to admit that there is plenty of room for improvement. Relations with the military intelligence services, though better than ever before, are still less than good. (The Navy, which had advance warning of the Batista coup d'état in Cuba last year, failed to pass the word on to CIA.) Because of insufficient filtering and analysis at lower levels, a vast and confusing flood of information is still...
...Martin, "they all seem concerned that some day they will be called on to explain why they signed the present armistice. Several I've talked to specifically think in terms of investigating committees demanding to know whether it is a fact that they sold out Korea. They frankly admit that complex justifications and explanations, currently acceptable, may look pretty lame in a year...
Last week excited archaeologists were trooping to Eleusis to see for themselves. Said Mylonas: "Once more tradition is proven a fact, and another great story of the past becomes reality." Not all his colleagues are so sure. They admit that he may have found the graves described by Pausanias, but Pausanias lived nearly 1,700 years after the Seven, and Greeks of his time were not above glamorizing their local antiquities to attract wealthy Roman tourists...