Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trying to rewrite the Constitution," explained the President at his news conference,"we are trying just to say that we are trying to carry out what normal humans of good faith having some confidence in each other would do in accordance with the language of the Constitution . . . Now, I admit this: if a man were So deranged that he thought he was able, and the consensus is that he couldn't, there would have to be something else done, no question...
...ranged uneasily from boosterism to ostrichism. In Los Angeles, where layoffs have idled nearly 6% of the work force, Hearst's Herald & Express whooped: ROSY L.A. ECONOMY SEEN. In Detroit, some of the big auto plant shutdowns have landed in the back pages. In New England, most publishers admit privately that they are worried about business conditions, but, says one news executive, "you'll never read a line of what they're saying in their own papers...
Pocketbook Optimism. Some newsmen -who as a group are not famed for sunny dispositions-admit frankly that their sudden preoccupation with cheer radiates from the pocketbook. "We don't want to scare our advertisers to death," says Editor Joseph E. Lambright of the Savannah morning News, which last month reported that downtown sales were off 10%, next day ran an advertiser-pressured "clarification" explaining that the slump was caused by the suburban growth. Last week the Nashville Tennessean was pointedly warned by advertisers that its alert coverage of the recession was "bad for business." Newspaper front offices have reason...
...Risk. Silky's only stubborn detractors are the early-morning dockers, the stopwatch specialists who have heard him come back from a workout wheezing like an equine asthmatic. Silky's outraged owners brush off such canards. They admit no more than that their horse is a "roarer," i.e., an animal who clears his ears, nose and throat with a sound like a bull alligator with his tail caught in a trap. They have other health problems on their minds. Each of the two owners is a cardiac case...
...biggest trouble, as many auto dealers admit, is that the dealers themselves have not been scared enough to go back to oldfashioned, aggressive kind of selling they once knew. An Indianapolis businessman, in the market for a new auto, gave his name to three salesmen at the January auto show; not one ever called him. Says Warren Carmical, general manager of a Dallas Buick agency: "The trouble is that auto salesmen have had it easy for so long that a lot have forgotten how to work...