Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commuters are, at least for a while, a fact of life. As long as the University feels it worthwhile to admit local students for whom there are no House facilities, or who cannot afford residence a commuting problem will exist. While not an ideal solution, cooperative houses do offer a chance for students to avoid the inconvenience of daily MTA travel and the distractions of living at home...
Even when cloaked in don't-quote-me anonymity, a member of Congress rarely admits that a major national problem totally baffles him. But on Capitol Hill these days, lawmakers are confessing bafflement in the face of the massive and growing farm-subsidy scandal. "I admit I don't know what should be done," says a don't-quote-me G.O.P. wheat-state Senator. Vermont's George Aiken, ranking Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee and longtime farm policy specialist, shakes his head in confessed bewilderment. Louisiana's Allen Ellender, Agriculture Committee chairman, mutters...
...attack with Senate floor speeches aimed toward liberal Democrats, pointing out, among other things, that Democrats meet in caucus only once a session, and then only to hear Johnson enunciate Democratic policy. What the one-man revolution hoped to gain, nobody knew. But even Lyndon Johnson would have to admit that Bill Proxmire had turned out to be quite a surprise package...
...Florida's first public school integration move, the Dade County school board last week voted unanimously to admit four Negro pupils to an all-white Miami elementary school next fall. The board acted without waiting for court pressure, thus reduced to five the number of Southern states that have made no move to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 decision: South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana...
...being accepted. New York pleases him because he can be irresponsible and keep two identities. He really works for a trade magazine with offices on Madison Avenue, but he convinces his fiancee's respectable family that he is on a supersecret Government mission. Still, he is forced to admit to himself that his double life is vapid: "Nothing is wrong with my days, but they are pallid and dull me ... I am not undernourished...