Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heroic strength-determination-will to struggle-faith in our destiny. We are possessed of a fierce driving power-optimistic, young, rough and ready-and I am convinced that our mechanistic age has not destroyed an appreciation of more tender moods." Any one that heard the symphony would have to admit that those words apply extremely well to the music, I am sure, and if the above quotation is an "elaborate pronouncement," then I am a marimba...
...sailors stationed at a big new naval base have changed the islands' face and habits. The change was most apparent in the jeeps and trucks that chugged over roads once sacred to the horse and the bicycle. It had taken a special act of the Assembly to admit motor vehicles; Bermuda's permanent residents feared that the noisome automobile was there to stay...
...less willing to admit, in so many words, that Yank is, objectively approached a morale builder for the masses of the Army; the privates, corporals, and sergeants. But Yank is that; its prime but never outspoken theme is the Glorified Enlisted Man. It also plays the more formal role of purveyor of information to the ranks. McCarthy feels the functions of entertainment and information are divided "fifty-fifty" in his paper...
Though his most implacable enemies admit his genius as a propaganda technician, few people in Germany, even in the Nazi Party, have any personal admiration for warp-minded, clubfooted Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. But, according to reliable information from Germany last week, Adolf Hitler has made his ambitious Propaganda Minister unchallenged Nazi leader on the home front...
...subject for debate will be "Resolved: that the United Nations form a permanent Federal Union with the powers to tax and regulate commerce, to establish an international' police force, and to admit new members who signify their adherence to these principles...