Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passed a bill to admit 205,000 displaced persons in the next two years and permit 15,000 refugees already in the U.S. to remain. Because the bill stipulated that eligible DPs must have arrived in the Allied occupation zones of Germany before Dec. 22, 1945 (thus excluding many Jews fleeing 1946 Polish pogroms), and set aside special quotas for farmers, Baits & Volksdeutsche, it was denounced as discriminatory against Jews and Catholics...
...Passed the Fellows bill to admit 202,000 D.P.s over the next two years, a more generous formula than the Senate's discriminatory Wiley-Revercomb bill. ¶ Passed a farm-price support bill to continue present support policy until 1950. ¶ Received the Andrews draft bill from its Rules Committee, where it had been bottled up for five weeks...
...afternoon the authorities were forced to admit the truth: three adverse weather reports had been received early in the morning and it had been deemed unwise to expose the newly refurbished scarlet uniforms and bearskins of the Guard's Brigade. Snapped Tory M.P. Hugh Linstead in a letter to the Times next day: "Have we now reached the stage when no one in authority dare say 'carry on' if a meteorologist says it is going to rain?" Brigade HQ countered apologetically: "There were storms-there was a cloudburst over Clapham Junction [four miles away]." Britons felt cheated...
Admirers of the French cinema and of Raimu in particular will have to admit that the intensely human figure of the Gallic star undergoes little variety of characterization. In fact, 'Fanny" is "The Baker's Daughter" again, with the innate virtue of womanhood, backed by the mature but homely virtue of Raimu, once more triumphant over youthful indiscretion. Whether or not such repetition dulls French sensibilities, however, the lack of such basic themes in the Hollywood (or British) repertoire will insure a warm reception here, especially since that theme has been thoroughly seasoned with earthy humor unknown to the conventional...
Bunk and his schoolmates-girls in print dresses and boys in checkered shirts and blue jeans-began to read some of Mr. Fisher's books. And Bunk had to admit that literature wasn't at all bad-"the way Mr. Fisher teaches...