Word: admited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little more power." On this technological subject, he went so far as to suggest that West German Boris ("Boom-Boom") Becker, 17, the spectacular find of the tournament, was a souped-up shortcutter without a solid wooden foundation. But zing is more than string. McEnroe also had to admit, "I felt a little old out there...
...missing, Conwell shouted, "Do you all want to go home?" In unison they replied, "Yeah!" Added Conwell: "O.K., fellows. I think we made it." This time the convoy did roll, and the patience of all of the negotiating parties in the strange deal that no one wanted to admit was a deal had finally been rewarded...
Nowhere is that sentiment more dramatically highlighted than along the southern border, where illegal immigration is deeply woven into the local fabric. Some 3,000 U.S. border patrol agents maintain the southern frontier, yet INS officials admit that with bolstered forces the U.S. could significantly reduce the illegal traffic. Despite its length, much of the U.S.-Mexican border is blocked by huge expanses of desert and mountainous terrain. The bulk of illegal traffic centers on only about seven crossings; an estimated 60% of all illegals enter the U.S. near the cities of Chula Vista, Calif., and El Paso, Texas. Says...
...Television Man," Byrne has even become a T.V. junkie. He satirizes boob tube addicts by explaining that even soap opera fantasies are fine with him because he and T.V. "are just good friends." It becomes evident, nonetheless, that a real T.V. man would never admit to being...
...After the news conference in Sao Paulo, moreover, Menachem Russek, the retired head of an Israeli police anti-Nazi unit, confessed that he was "not angry but disappointed" that Mengele had apparently died unregenerate and unpunished. Others were finding the Mengele myth equally difficult to abandon. "I admit to having hoped that Mengele would have been more intriguing than the other Nazi fugitives," acknowledged Archivist Posner. "A number of us had fantasies about a man living deep in a heavily guarded jungle compound surrounded by bodyguards and police dogs. Frankly, a lot of the material we have found is very...