Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...break with them if we go to Formosa." On the same day, another high State Department source told the same correspondent: "Acheson has been steadily arguing with Truman to go along on an early recognition of Communist China. Just before Truman left for Key West, Acheson got him to admit the logic of early recognition. Truman said that Acheson had made a forceful case. The trouble now isn't with Truman, but in persuading him to override the pressure from congressional and other groups not to recognize...
Congress not only has the right, but the duty, in any year to inquire into the past policies and judgments of men such as Jessup, nominated for positions of power and trust. To date, Philip Jessup has lacked the courage to admit that he and the Administration were wrong-which even Henry Wallace has done...
...slow in debate; his prose was clubfooted. But he was a solid man whose word was respected. When New England patriots began to roar about the British Stamp Act, he urged caution. He hoped for a compromise even after the fighting began -and he was man enough to admit his original doubts later, after he saw that the revolution would have to be fought...
...should not be set aside," he cried. "This country is being literally flooded with un-American elements, a vast number of whom are today undermining and trying to wreck this Government and to destroy the American way of life." Colleagues pointed out that the bill was only designed to admit one three-year-old boy, half Japanese and half American, who had been adopted by an Air Force captain and his wife in Japan. "They always have some kind of an excuse for bringing these people here," snapped Rankin...
...Unanimously decided to admit Greece and Turkey into the North Atlantic alliance. If ratified by all member governments, this action will add about 30 divisions, now under arms, to the West's fighting strength. As the U.S.'s General Omar Bradley put it: "You need the Mediterranean to defend Europe, and you need Greece and Turkey to defend the Mediterranean...