Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scott Lucas, in an indiscreet moment, had come close to defining what more Harry Truman could get out of Congress before summer adjournment. Stubborn Harry Truman, in public at least, was unwilling to admit...
...case sticks, hawk-nosed Harry Bridges faces the possibility of a maximum of seven years' imprisonment, then deportation, In its previous attempts to deport Bridges, in 1939 and 1941, the Government cited Bridges' ties with Communist-front organizations, and produced witnesses who said they had heard him admit to being a Communist. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1945 ruled the evidence insufficient...
...American Academy of Arts and Letters that in pessimistic moments he thought that "man's best chance for harmony lies in apathy, uninventiveness and inertia . . . Universal exhaustion would certainly be a new experience. The human race has never undergone it, and it is still too perky to admit that it ... might result in a sprouting of new growth through decay...
This was in line with Provost Furniss' own inclination: not to admit any known communists to the Yale faculty in any capacity. "Some educators argue that communists should be admitted in certain research and non-controversial fields, but I cannot make that distinction," the Provost says. "If we have Communists on the faculty now, however, we are not going to fire them for their beliefs," he adds...
Behind the windows in Massachusetts Hall, the part-mutual operators refused to admit the race was fixed. "We don't know a thing about it," they said...