Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...married to a scientist. I'm not going to give away all our family secrets here, and I'm not going to write an article on the sex life of a scientist, but there are a few things these high school students might consider. I'll admit my husband wears horn-rimmed glasses, but about the only time they set on his ears is when he watches some esoteric program on TV such as Perry Mason, The Tracer or Bugs Bunny. We also go skindiving, go on camping trips to the desert, chase rabbits with the kids...
...those who want neither to renounce all social activity for three years of college life nor to pass through the indignity of Bicker and accept membership in one of the seventeen eating clubs. But any one in the university, with the possible exception of the administration, will freely admit that the three-room facility in no sense provides a satisfactory alternative...
...rows of empty bottles. Prospect had electric lights and beer tonight. Somehow the number dwindles to thirty-five as the discouraging hours pass, then six give way and trudge toward Prospect, and another six are placed as a few clubs each make the sacrifice and each consent to admit one lone hundred percenter (there to be pariah or sycophant for who knows how long). Above, in the library, like secret Teutonic Norns, the ICC meets in constant absolutely closed session, omnipotently spinning fate. Below them, twenty-three one hundred percents remain, half of them Jewish. In Valhalla's lofty...
...editors of the News have little confidence in their swimming ability. They admit that the News does not have a sufficiently high reputation among students to insure adequate voluntary subscription. They insist, however, that with the backing of a compulsory subscribtion, the staff can raise the quality of the newspaper...
...more capable of presenting feature stories rather than spot news, it might do well to consider the possibility of becoming a magazine instead of a newspaper. Such a revolutionary change in format might attract enough voluntary readers to eliminate the need for compulsory subscription--which its own editors admit is only a necessary evil...