Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lakers were the only ones to beat them this year until we did in Buffalo. But when they do horse around they make you feel like an ass. You don't like it when you're out there, but when you're not in the game you have to admit they're comical. They get a lot of publicity. Bill Veeck owns a part interest and the papers really play up anything he says. He claims the Globetrotters are going to play behind the Iron curtain. Maybe they are, for all I know...
...said they kept demanding he confess to an alleged complicity with American citizens he never knew in an imaginary plot aimed at the assassination of Peron. "I told them I would rather die than admit to such a falsehood," he said...
...actor." In Hollywood, Actor John Wayne, president of the anti-Communist Motion Picture Alliance, also rallied round: "I think it's fine that he had the courage to answer the questions and declare himself . . . The American public is pretty quick to forgive a person who is willing to admit a mistake...
Perhaps it would be too much to expect a new council to press forever for a principle which officialdom seems determined to ignore. This council gave up the struggle. It decided to admit that the deans can, if they wish, use the "good name" of Harvard as an excuse to regulate any phase of undergraduate activity. The council resigned itself to the deans' power to pass on a new publication's policy or to forbid a public performance, on the grounds that the "good name" of Harvard is at stake...
...Croaker does not admit any softness for his patients. "You can't kiss these tough babies," he grunts. "They don't respect you for it." But when all the prisoners at "Q" deliberately snubbed unhappy James Watson, a spindly, mouse-eyed confessed murderer of seven wives, Dr. Stanley took pity. He made Bluebeard Jimmy a nurse in the TB ward, found him "a gentle, sympathetic man and a fine helper...