Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Toussaint Bernard, who was once (1937-38) a Farmer-Labor Congressman from Minnesota, and who once (1950) appeared in Chicago's Loop clad in a Santa Claus suit and handing out Stockholm (i.e., Communist) peace petitions. Subpoenaed by the committee, Bernard invoked the Fifth Amendment, refused to admit or deny Communist activities or sympathies. He left the stand after making a bellicose demand for the $12 owed to him in witness fees...
Comments from U.S. airmen on the Farnborough show were generally critical. Some, conceding that the British are forward-looking in design, refused to admit that the British have anything that the U.S. cannot match. Others pointed out that the British exhibit their designs (e.g., the ill-fated DH-110) long before they have been properly tested. Another criticism : the new British military planes look good in design and in flight test, but they have not yet passed the big test of battle, or even of service in tactical units. And they are not likely to get the big test soon...
When the Law School finally decided to admit women in 1949, there were mutterings about disrupting influences and lowering of standards. Today, as the third group of Portias register, there will be few adverse comments...
...press had cornered an unhappy Nichols, and had forced him to admit that he had "worked on a construction gang," that his "weight was down to 224," his best playing weight, and that "the dropping of spring practice hurt." Finally the coach replaced the captain against the press...
...average age of 37, Hersey's classmates have attained a total earning power of $9,000,000 a year. Over & above that, they get some $6,000,000 more from investments. Since graduation, each has held an average of 3.12 jobs, but only 47 will admit they were ever fired. They have gained a total 9,710 pounds, 23 Cadillacs, 61 Buicks, ten Packards, five Lincolns, 19 "assorted foreign automotive showpieces." Three out of four vote Republican...