Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Removed all limits on Hungarian immigration. Canada will admit as many refugees as want to come, requiring no character references or rigid physical examinations. Explained an immigration officer: "About all a Hungarian will have to do is be alive...
...grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is perfected in weakness. When we admit our weakness and call upon God for help, his divine power flows into our lives and turns defeat into victory...
Football coach Lloyd Jordan said Tuesday that the University should admit "some hard-nosed kids" to improve Crimson football teams...
Speaking at the annual football banquet of the Harvard Club of Boston, he asserted that the University could admit better football players "without compromising scholastic standards...
Camouflaged Cleavage. Many newsmen admit that their stories on royalty are often unfair or inaccurate, e.g., press accounts of last month's coming-of-age party for the Duke of Kent included varying descriptions of the "birthday cake," though no cake was served. Editors argue that the public wants to read about human beings rather than the bloodless functionaries described in palace handouts. Britain's newspapers are still widely torn between deference and defiance in chronicling the crown. Last year, the lip-smacking Mirror gave almost a whole page to a peekaboo shot of Princess Margaret...