Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their treatment of Quakers, and Friends for their refusal to protect the Scots on the frontier. Virginia Anglicans might ponder whether their failure 350 years after Jamestown to number more than a fraction of the Baptists and Methodists in that state is not due to their reluctance to admit tyranny before 1776 and superciliousness since. The Methodists and Baptists who set community patterns which discriminated against others might repent of their covert persecutions. And we all might repent of our sneers at Pentecostalists...
...winner of the contested election, was forced to give it up after Lacey took the case to court-and finally, unopposed, took over Joint Council 16 when ailing Martin Lacey dropped out. O'Rourke's surprise: Fifth Amendment pleas on all pertinent questions, even a refusal to admit that he is president of the council or that he is acquainted with other Teamster officials. Asked South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt plaintively: "Is there anything you would like to say to help disincriminate yourself? Is the whole story really that bad?" O'Rourke declined to answer...
...deficits are expected to be eliminated when the present Social Security tax of 4½% (combined employer and employee shares) on the first $4,200 of annual income is boosted to 5½%, with further 1% tax-rate jumps scheduled for 1965, 1970 and 1975. But Social Security experts admit that even then there may not be enough income to offset benefit payments, necessitating further tax increases...
...fact: the intruder bumped into two silver or bromine nuclei, creating six mesons in the first collision and 64 in the second. Theoretically, the first collision should have produced more-not fewer-mesons than the second. Hunting for an explanation, Minnesota scientists are still puzzling over their plates, frankly admit that they do not yet know the full significance of their big catch. "At this high energy," says Physics Professor Edward P. Ney, "I'd be surprised if something new didn't happen...
...heads of state such as King Paul of Greece, Brazil's President Kubitschek, Cabinet ministers and businessmen, extends his hospitality to men who once vowed to destroy him. In a gesture that symbolizes the rehabilitation of the Krupp empire and name, the U.S., which has long refused to admit convicted war criminals, last fortnight granted Alfried Krupp a visa to visit the country...