Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lubells are communists we do not sympathize with their politics. But we do affirm their right to be unpopular, even to be wrong, and we will treat them as human beings as long as we admit ourselves to be fallible and imperfect. Carl Sapers '53 Robert Layzer '53 Anthony Bellenson...
Lightening the Ship. Great Britain is still in economic peril, he went on. In fact, he had to admit, much of the improvement came not as the result of his last budget, but of lucky breaks in the flow of world economics. Butler's estimates last year had, in fact, proved ludicrously wrong (he had figured on a surplus of ?510 million and had realized only ?88 million). Britain was faced, as brutally as ever, with the choice of producing more and selling more overseas or perishing...
...most of the school's finances still rests on short-term grants. Seventy-one percent of last year's budget came this way. Government money helps more than the Dean likes to admit. "If it were not for government aid," he says, "this school and many like it would have folded long...
...Defense Secretary Robert A. Lovett admitted that "from time to time . . . there were shortages [in Korea], and at some points it was critical." He told the subcommittee that he first learned of the shortages through rumors and through informal conversations with officers returning from Korea. That was in the autumn of 1951. A year later, after trying unsuccessfully to get the Army Department and the Army Chief of Staff to speed up production of short items, or even to admit that shortages existed, he finally "took the problem out of [Army] control and vested it in the hands...
With this the Danish doctors flatly disagree. Jorgensen may well be in for much suffering, they admit, but if so, the publicity given to the operation will be to blame. If Jorgensen had been able to slide quietly into society and be accepted as a woman, the prognosis would be much more favorable...