Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ballot, the council-men have slipped eggs in each other's pockets, joked loudly, and even refused to swing the tide by voting for themselves. Hundreds of Cambridge citizens have come to the sessions, and have laughed, jeered, and insulted the actors on the councilroom stage. "Ridiculous," they ruefully admit between sips of lemonade...
...supposed to have made the final Solomonic Decision to hold the Air Force to 55 groups (TIME, April 5). Forrestal's recommendation was based on a "balanced" military structure. His theory: a bigger Air Force is ineffective without a bigger ground force. Even Air Force men admit that U.S. aircraft cannot deliver a decisive blow against the enemy except from overseas bases defended by ground troops...
...admirers say that he understands government better than any man in Washington; that he is not ashamed to admit mistakes; that he has the kind of filing-case mind and grasp of facts needed for the complex job of being President; that he is intellectually honest; that the people will always know exactly where he stands; that he would give the nation a businesslike, energetic and straightforward government...
...Finland, closest to the heat, two members of the Finnish-Russian treaty negotiation delegation hurried home for worried talks about Russian demands. By week's end, Finland's coalition government had not yet stomached a Russian demand that Finland admit Russian troops whenever Moscow decided that Finnish "independence" was threatened...
...three months, a U.N. Commission has cooled its heels in Seoul, trying to arrange a national election and dodging Communist snipers. The Russians had flatly refused to admit the commission into Korea's Russian-occupied northern zone. Exasperated, the U.S. finally decided to schedule for May an election of its own in Korea's U.S.-occupied southern half. The Communist radio in northern Korea promptly denounced this as an imperialist plot to split Korea, called for financial contributions to support a "merciless and fierce" guerrilla campaign against the Americans. "This way," said one Communist broadcast, "the blood-boiling...