Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That the situation was disappointing, Eisenhower was prompt to admit. "There is always," he explained, "the grey zone of human affairs." The picture was not all grey. In Eisenhower's judgment-and in the initial calculations of the Three Wise Men-ithere was enough on hand or within reach to put together a NATO army of 20 fully equipped divisions by next year. Washington convinced itself that such an army in being by 1952 was preferable to 60 on paper now, and half ready by 1954. Besides, the development of tactical atomic weapons might make a 20-division army...
Hardly anyone wants to go into the Army; there is little enthusiasm for the military life, no enthusiasm for war. Youngsters do not talk like heroes; they admit freely that they will try to stay out of the draft as long as they can. But there is none of the systematized and sentimentalized antiwar feeling of the '205. Pacifism has been almost nonexistent since World War II; so are Oxford Oaths. Some observers regard this as a sign of youth's passivity. But, as a student at Harvard puts it: "When a fellow gets his draft notice...
...have not been made happy by their ascent to power. They are dressed to kill in femininity. The bosom is back; hair is longer again; office telephones echo with more cooing voices than St. Mark's Square at pigeon-feeding time. The career girl is not ready to admit that all she wants is to get married; but she has generally retreated from the brassy advance post of complete flat-chested emancipation, to the position that she would like, if possible, to have marriage and a career, both. In the cities, she usually lives with a roommate (for respectability...
Princeton's Specialty. Princeton Coach Charley Caldwell, 1950 coach-of-the-year and likely to be the coach of 1951, is frank to admit that, as a 155-lb. freshman, Kazmaier simply looked too frail to stand the gaff of big-time football. (Last week, a senior, he weighed 171.) "But," says Caldwell, "I never saw a player of such intensity, with such determination for perfection. He drives himself so hard that he carries the rest of the team with...
Presidents Conant, Griswold, and Dodds have agreed on an athletic admissions policy for their respective institutions. They will not bury players, nor will they admit men who do not meet normal academic standards. This is a policy designed to protect athlete and college alike, for it denies exploitation of students at the same time that it denies subsidies...