Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been destroyed in a raid on Dortmund. Fritsche said no such thing. This also applies to the catastrophe of the Möhne Dam. Twenty and 40 thousand were mentioned as the number of fatal casualties. The true figures were published. ... It is a deplorable fact . . . but we can admit it quite frankly...
...silent in hiding and the air-conditioning must be shut off. Then, as in the old subs, temperatures shoot to the top of the thermometer and the air gets foul. Depth charges may boom. When they come close the ship shudders and submen feel fear. All but the liars admit it, and there are few liars in the subs...
Lieut. H. B. Rosenson thought he knew all about the British when he landed in England last July-how they would fight to the last American, etc., etc. Six months later he was ready to admit that the British had a few good points: after bailing out of a flaming Fortress over Tripoli, he remembered enough of an R.A.F. pamphlet on how to find food and water in the desert to get back to his outfit. For the next four months, Navigator Rosenson had a birdman's-eye-view of the British at work in Tunisia. Back in London...
...segregation from white outfits. Its officers, headed by the C.O., slim, tea-colored Lieut. Colonel Benjamin 0. Davis, Jr., joined in none of the debate, plugged hard and long at their training. By the time West Pointer Davis led his P-4OS into battle, white airmen were ready to admit that the outfit was good, that in aerial marksmanship (at which it had had an unusual amount of training) it was one of the best...
Julia Marlowe, 76, romantic stage heroine of 40-odd years ago (Sothern & Marlowe), was up & about after three weeks abed recovering from injuries suffered in a fall. Refusing to admit reporters to her Manhattan hotel suite, she sent word by her maid that she wanted to "have nothing to do with the outside world...