Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ships, including the 7,000-ton Tambov, the Soviet fleet's mother ship. While 800 Soviet crewmen-relieved to get ashore after being cooped up for four months aboard ship-loafed and chatted with the people of Aalesund, Norwegian authorities got two of the 15 skippers to admit they had been poaching, then fired off a strong protest to Moscow. Radio Moscow simply replied that Norway should release the Soviet fishing boats without delay...
...into the university after a long fight in court. Finally, Federal Judge Harlan Hobart Grooms issued an injunction ordering the university to admit her. Trailed by her guard, she reported to her first class, sat alone in the first row, tried hard not to notice the freshman who stomped out of the room muttering: "For two cents I'd give up the course...
...late now, of course, to repaint the picture. The damage has been done--not only to the university, but to moderate Southerners who have argued persuasively against rushing immediate, full-scale integration. For after all, what could have been more gradual than to admit one carefully chosen student as a prelude to real integration? The initial conclusion certainly seems to be that integration--whether gradual or swift--necessarily must create violence and that the South is far from ready to accept, even grudgingly, limited desegregation...
Those with the strength to rise for breakfast and the courage to notice the faces across the table will readily admit that morale is presently at its lowest level. As the weeks seem to grow longer, the bells louder, and the lectures more tedious, undergraduates can look back to the day when much of the miserable mood set in--the Wednesday when classes met for the new semester. If there were a pause of at least three days between exam period and the second semester, providing an opportunity to recover from exams and to prepare for the next cycle, spirits...
What makes Prime Minister Nehru a master of compromise is his distaste for simple defeat. But last week it looked as if Nehru would have to admit that his Congress Party scheme for revising India's state boundaries according to language blocs was a dead duck...