Word: admit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admit that I enjoy a good boxing match on ice here and there, but dropping your gloves and trying to punch someone's nose through the back of his skull during a hockey game is ridiculous. It just doesn't belong...
...most important and time-consuming matter discussed by the two leaders was European security. Russia's baby-step concession to join the Partnership for Peace is something, but the continuing divergence of views regarding the U.S. plan to admit new members to NATO is truly troubling. Of the many areas of dispute between Washington and Moscow, NATO's expansion has the greatest potential to rupture relations between the two countries at exactly the moment when the course of Russian democracy (if it can be called that) is on the line...
...sure, Davis is no swaddled innocent, as he is the first to admit. "I made my share of errors and mistakes, and did my share of wrong -- sinned against both man and God," he wrote recently. "But I am not a murderer." That message has been disseminated to tens of thousands of Internet users via a home page that was established by his defense team on the World Wide Web. In addition to the facts of the case, the page presents, side by side, two quite dissimilar handwriting samples: one taken from a note that police say Davis wrote...
...have to admit, I was surprised. As much as I thought the fans were angry, as much as I thought players and owners had take them for granted during their nine-month fratricide, I always felt that once the National Anthem started playing again, the fans would flock back to their seats. Clearly, I was wrong...
...program to help keep women out of the Citadel. Under the plan, women would take academic courses at Converse and receive their military training at a site other than the Citadel. State officials had approached the college after courts had ruled that the Citadel had until August to either admit women to its cadet corps or establish a separate but equal program elsewhere. Lawyers for Shannon Faulkner, whose legal battle to be admitted into the state-run Citadel prompted the arrangement, said the program is not an acceptable substitute: "For women to be leaders of men, they can't learn...