Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under sharp questioning, Schrunk wilted perceptibly. He flatly denied having taken bribes from Clifford Bennett. But he did admit that his deputies had raided the 8212 Club, seen liquor being illegally served after hours, spotted gambling equipment all over the place-and that he had gone away without taking further action...
Since we were accepted by Harvard, our favorite pastime has been beating systems--big systems, little systems, any old system. But we must admit that this pastime, which sometimes becomes a vocation, is an all-too-recent acquisition. This admission is made with some nostalgia for the good old days of youthful idealism, and with some regret for the many early years of stultifying diligence...
...House groups often admit to a profit, but don't consider this a product of overcharging. They merely "plow back" the money into technical equipment or save it for the next production. Here perhaps the Ford grants for the Houses could be used to advantage. It would not be in the nature of a wasteful subsidy for the Ford funds to cover some of the primary expenditures of House theatricals, thus abating the need both for charging professional prices for amateur production and for selecting a play merely on grounds of potential financial success...
Forty per cent or more students at large colleges admit to frequent cheating with "no sense of wrong-doing," a survey conducted for the Twelfth National Conference on Higher Education has reported...
...priest, as played by James Olson, is of the young, athletic type, but given to suffering for his faith. Or so we are led to believe by the fact that at one point, and for no clearly discernible reason, he breaks down in tears. I must admit an irreligious impulse to cheer at Pat's ultimately successful efforts to die without letting him administer the Last Sacraments of the Church. But that is the only thing The Sin of Pat Muldoon presents to cheer about...