Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feel certain he expected it to drive out the "course system." This has not occurred: indeed, exactly the opposite has taken place; new courses have proliferated to a degree that seems absurd. American professors, old and young, like to give courses (and so do I, I must admit). Few care to do tutorial work after the first dozen years. Since no other American college has adopted a tutorial system (to me a significant fact), experience in tutorial work is not considered useful as a preparation for employment elsewhere...
Today once again we live in a period of peril, far greater peril to my mind than many of us appear to realize. The prospect of the physical annihilation of all of Harvard is for the first time in our history a possibility that we must admit. The destruction of the spiritual premises on which our whole tradition rests is likewise a possibility that no one can deny who recalls the fate of the University in Prague. To prevent such possibilities' becoming in fact realities is the problem that we face collectively and individually. Each one of us must asses...
Barrel of laughs. At the jail on Rakoczy Street in the town of Gyor, policemen wielding hoses persuaded him to admit the sabotage; but it was not enough. He was ordered to name the U.S. agent who had bought him off. He knew of no agent. He was taken to another jail, on Bela Bartok Street, and placed in a barrel-shaped container which rolled around and around like the Barrel of Laughs at a carnival. Hours later he was taken out, spitting blood but still unable to name a guilty American. The Communists strapped him in a chair under...
Makki returned recently from Washington, announced that he had "documents" and "proof" of all kinds of dire interference by Acheson and Truman. When able U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson successfully rebutted the charges, Mossadegh forced his Deputy Prime Minister to go before a packed Majlis and admit that he had no proof or documents of any sort. Makki never forgot or forgave this...
...that the Soviet Government can 'do anything.' " (Only J. Stalin, of all Russians, dares say there are things he cannot do.) Editor Fedoseev glowed with approval; his tribute could not have been more slavish; but still it got him in trouble. He was denounced for failing to admit in his Izvestia article how wrong he had been four years ago when he praised the other book. Fedoseev apologized...