Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This," the studio declares with unblinking self-gratulation, "is the story the Navy wanted told ... of the lengths to which [governmental] agencies will go to safeguard the sacred rights of individuals ... of an Assistant Secretary of the Navy who has the moral courage to discover and publicly admit his mistake...
...delicious hot milk." And grabbing Robert (who had skipped behind a vacant desk and gone to work with pen and rubber stamp), he rushed the trio off in search of a hotel. But not until day's end did weary Julius find a place that was prepared to admit Robert. Léon and Tzara-and even then, "they were taken up in the service lift." Such is the inhumanity of man to chimpanzees...
...fiasco. Age had bred in him not mellowness but arrogance. Yellow fever, corruption and his own stubbornness (he insisted on building a canal without locks despite the mountains and rivers the waterway must cross) ruined the project after ten years of exhausting labor. De Lesseps was forced to admit defeat, and only the selfless courage of his son Charles, who took the burden of responsibility on himself, saved De Lesseps from the ignominy of jail. But 25 years later the Panama Canal became a reality...
...will stretch ourselves to accept as many qualified applicants as possible," Bender asserted. This will not affect the number of students the University will admit by its customary admissions policies, he continued...
...hope to have special donations to cover the expenses of the Hungarian students," Bender stated. The decision to admit Makkai was so immediate that only general scholarship funds could be used. His tuition, books, and other fees are being paid for by the University...