Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days drafting identical replies to Moscow. They recognized the propaganda appeal of Russia's offer to the Germans. They aimed to leave all doors open-even though nothing but a cold draft was coming through. They asserted in moderate tones: 1) that if Russia is sincere, Russia should admit a U.N. commission to East Germany to determine whether free elections can be held there; 2) that the Russians fail to say whether unified Germany could conduct its own foreign" policy, could join in various European agencies like the Schuman Plan; 3) that Russia invokes the Potsdam Agreement to keep...
...hospitals, where he read aloud from Charles Dickens, James Thurber, Aesop, Thomas Wolfe, the Bible. Says Laughton: "The men in the hospital, unlike the people in the theaters, when they didn't understand said so out loud and if I didn't understand either I learned to admit it . . . And when I did understand and they did not, I knew I wasn't doing it right and wrestled with it until they did . . ." The attention he got from the wounded soldiers first led Laughton to suspect that a lot of Americans want more than comic books...
Glueck refused to comment on the possibility of a link-up between the Danver and Brink robberies, but did admit that both showed the mark of a "master-mind...
...McCarran Bill, which devotes as much space to deporting immigrants as to admitting them, limits yearly immigration to one-sixth of one percent of the American population. While smaller than many had hoped, this figure is not too unreasonable, for the nation should not admit more people than we can comfortably absorb into out economy. But the McCarran method of immigration is riddled with injustices. Each country's quota of immigrants is based upon the number of American citizens whose families came from that country. By basing this quota on the 1920 census, McCarran discriminates against southern and eastern Europeans...
Largely these are petty gripes, most Councillors admit, but they are significant. Councillors insist that Atkinson does not recognize the tremendous pressures brought on legislators. He is too interested in keeping taxes down to fulfill campaign promises. Even worse, he evidently does not realize that he was elected by a coalation--the Cambridge Civic Association. He flaunts this coalition, and Councillors believe that the only way to put him in his proper place is to dangle him on a shoe-string for a while...