Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have pointed up the rather ironic similarity of the "phony war" of the winter of 1939-40, and the "cold war" of the winter of 1947-48. Even the most sanguine will have to admit that although most of the principal characters in the play have been changed, the plot remains the same...
Forrestal was forced to admit that the Joint Chiefs of Staff considered the 66-group program "inadequate as a military matter." The Senators, suspicious of a force taken out of mothballs, gave it short shrift, decided to take matters in their own hands...
...only six weeks older than Harry Truman. They feel that he is one of the nation's few great Senators in the tradition of Borah, Norris, Daniel Webster and Clay; that he combines international vision with hardheaded common sense; that he has had the courage to admit a big mistake and to put his country above politics; that he is an American statesman known and respected abroad, the only G.O.P. candidate with wide experience in international affairs at a time when international affairs are paramount...
...suggest, however, that in the last paragraph, which proposes an increase in the number of readers so that "the paper could be returned in time for the student to make any justified complaints before his grade is turned in," that you are perhaps laying faulty emphasis. If you admit that the primary purpose of the exam should, in theory at least, be increased learning, then the primary purpose of returning the exam to the student is to give him constructive criticism, and not to achieve a meeting of the minds between student and greater on what a fair mark should...
...natural indignation at the misuse of the words "liberal" and "civil rights," as I share their revulsion towards those groups who try to cloak an anti-preparedness campaign under the attractive phrase, "Save the Peace," and then expound the party line on Palestine and Mr. Wallace's candidacy. I admit that to take an attitude of amused contempt is a temptation. However, it seems to me that the issues at stake call for a more intelligent and thoughtful approach than cat-calls and vaudeville and ill-considered cries of "We Want War." Edwin S. S. Sunderland...