Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chronicle's editorial challenge: "Once proven not to be true let's tell the world about it, so that millions of people in this country may not believe that we are heartless heathens. If by any chance Caldwell is right, let's know the truth, admit it with shame and humiliation and go about correcting it." For what the Augusta Chronicle admits, and what it has to tell the world...
Wailed Ester: "I admit I owe 250 zlotys ($50). The rent was only 15 zlotys ($3) a month, but I haven't been able to pay what I owe since Maxie stopped sending me money...
From anyone except the Dictator this would have sounded like flat treason and "deviation from the Party line," which has always been to consider first the collective interest. Continued Comrade Stalin's new and contrariwise directive as announced by Comrade Yakovlev: "It is better to admit openly and honestly that there should be private housekeeping on collective farms-small but private. . . . As long as family and children exist, these interests must not be neglected...
...that his heart was as sound as a dollar. The underlying conditions which bring on an attack of angina pectoris usually exist in the arteries of the heart muscle. Yet the physician may not be able to detect them with a cardiograph or x-rays. In general, honest doctors admit that angina pectoris and its causes baffle them, that all they can do is to stand off Death for a while...
McGafferty refuses to admit defeat, tries to bolster up the failing banks singlehanded. His mistress lone comes to fetch him away from the life-&-death struggle, which to her is just another hard day at the office. When he learns that his most trusted associate has shot himself, McGafferty throws up the sponge, goes to meet his own fate...