Word: admited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, in certain instances, exclusivity is unavoidable. Harvard would admit a much less capable group of students, if the dean of admissions simply drew applications from a hat, and Loeb productions would be less than stellar, if actors were cast on a first-come-first-serve basis...
...Okay, so you don't like the other two provisions. But what about raising the speed limit? You have to admit that's good news...
...admit I have my own tuxedo, but--I must confess--I didn't buy it in anticipation of the 350th ball. Unfortunately, the event's planners, whoever they are (I sure didn't get a chance to vote for them), failed to foresee that many Harvard undergrads don't have formal wear just waiting in the closet for a night on the town...
Brought to bay in a courtroom, the Mafia bosses have adopted an unusual defense: rather than fight the Government's efforts to prove the existence of La Cosa Nostra, they admit it. "This case is not about whether there is a Mafia," thundered Defense Attorney Samuel Dawson. "Assume it. Accept it. There is." Nevertheless, he told the jury, "just because a person is a member of the Mafia doesn't mean he has committed the charged crime or even agreed to commit the charged crime." Dawson depicted the Commission as a sort of underworld businessmen's round table that approves...
...more than 150 in each of the past two years. The various investigating agencies, including state and local police, have found novel places to hide their bugs: in a Perrier bottle, a stuffed toy, a pair of binoculars, shoes, an electric blanket, a horse's saddle. Agents even admit to dropping snooping devices into a confessional at a Roman Catholic church frequented by mobsters, as well as a church candlestick holder and a church men's room. All this, agents insist, was done with court permission...