Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British were ready to admit that the second Burma campaign, like the first, had been lost. The winner: Major General Masakasu Kawabe, Commander of the Japanese...
...longer a man approaching battle. Now he was a man running a battle, the very battle he had wanted for years-against Rommel. Now he must forsake his reputation for impetuousness, and be careful; this was a battle that would not tolerate error. And now, to admit the bitter truth, the battle was not going very well...
Inflation Inflated. The committee tried another tack. Would the witness admit that wage increases were inflationary? With majestic patience, he would not. On the contrary, the greatest danger to price controls was the Government's "excessive rewards to industry for producing war commodities...
...Churchill stormed: "The temptation to tell a chief in a great position the things he most likes to hear is one of the commonest explanations of mistaken policy. Thus the outlook of the leader on whose decision fateful events depend is usually far more sanguine than the brutal facts admit...
Elisabet was sustained by an appealing cast of minor eccentrics. She would never admit that she had married Edmund Montgomery, bastard of a Scottish baron, lifelong searcher for the mainspring of life in the pullulations of protoplasm. All his life he called her "Miss Ney." In his silence, his patience, his courage, his poetic nobility, he emerges as almost a saint. Crescentia ("Cencie") Simath, the maidservant, was apparently paralyzed with love for Edmund and endured, if possible, even more than he did. Lorne, the son, was a tragic, horrifying product of idealism crossed with rampant mother love...