Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself is ready to admit, it will be difficult to tell how well he has succeeded until the outcome of today's game is well set into the book of football history. But he thinks he has had good material to work with. Especially satisfactory to him has been the work of Ned Dewey's replacement, Howie Houston, although Howie is comparatively fragile as linemen go-weighing in at a mere 200 pounds. He also had high praise for Bob Drennan, Emil Drvaric's replacement at guard last year. According to Kopp, Drennan is the "most improved player...
...controls to stop inflation, in fighting against Universal Military Training, in advocating support of dynamic democratic socialism in Europe rather than mere military "containment" of Russia, Mr. Wallace finds widespread liberal support. On the other hand, when he describes American foreign policy as imperialistically motivated, when he refuses to admit the heartening progress toward liberalism in the rise to power of the Sophoulis government in Greece, when he refuses to differentiate between liberals and pro-Communists in the CIO and American Veterans Committee, and when he urges American liberals to work within the same political action organizations as American Communists...
...York Times man tailed, and triumphantly told the reporter's boss that he was spending some of his working time at race tracks. Once, in his fury against bookmakers, he asked children to tattle to him when their fathers gambled. He had the candor to admit his shortcomings: "When I make a mistake, it's a beaut...
...Beautiful & the Damned. It was a battle between two very different kinds of socialists. Just to mix things up even more, it also involved Tories who do not know (or admit) that they are socialists, a lot of people who merely pretend to be socialists, and a staggering number of Britons who imagine that British socialism is divinely different from all other socialism. But for Americans, it is a fair simplification to say that the battle is between good socialists and bad socialists...
...Christian faith, though they recognize a common Lord, cannot achieve a little more charity in their relations to each other, they have no right to speak to the world or claim to have any balm for the world's hatreds and mistrusts." Even partisans of each faith will admit some justice in the stern, three-point scolding Niebuhr administers to both sides. Excerpts...