Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plow approach to the irrigation, sanitation, and agricultural backwardness of India's villages, Point Four has proven its value as an instrument of foreign policy. These results, moreover, have cost but 125 million dollars in aid. All but the most ardent Congressional "rathole" theorists have been forced to admit that this relatively small sum has equalled in effectiveness millions for defense spend in other countries...
...Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, 42, a pitcher who knew no peer (and was the first to admit it) during the rowdy days of the famed St. Louis Cardinal "Gas House Gang" in the '30s. The last pitcher in either league to win 30 games in one season (1934), Ol' Diz also holds the National League strike-out record (17 in one game), wound up his flamboyant career with 150 victories, 83 losses. After his pitching days were cut short by an injury in 1937, Diz turned to sports announcing, enriched the language with such phrases as "slud...
...Budu says. In addition, he suffers from asthma and insomnia. He was in a state of collapse after the Yalta Conference, where, says Budu again, the "Churchill-Stalin vodka-drinking duel had been bad for him." "I'm younger than Churchill," he said, "and I don't admit his superiority even in the matter of how much alcohol we can take." From about that time, Budu implies, the Soviet Union has been run pretty much by the Molotov-Malenkov axis, even though Stalin used to complain that "Molotov is no good at ending arguments, only at starting them...
...problem of getting applications from outside is a touchy one, Bender explained. "If we give a scholarship to a straight "A" student from East Denver and don't admit, say, a popular boy with lower marks, we may be in trouble...
...admit that Mao Tse-tung has indeed succeeded in eliminating inflation, and even famine, if he has already liquidated enough millions of people to achieve that. But floods! Does the dreaded Chairman Mao have the magical power to alter, mind you in three years, the course of the Hwang-ho, the Yangtze, and various other rivers which have been the sole cause of this natural disaster...