Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lloyd C. Douglas, 72, told a Boston interviewer that he was staunchly opposed to change and that he tried to get that idea across in books like The Robe and The Big Fisherman. "I have only one theme," he said. "All authors have only one theme, though few will admit it. My theme, it happens, people like, because they long to stay...
Both sides admit, however, that Cambridge has come a long way under Plan E and the City Manager, John B. Atkinson...
...adjournment. Up for debate was the liberalized Displaced Persons bill, which leaders in both parties were pledged to support. Blasted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee after nine months of dogged obstruction by Chairman Pat McCarran, the bill would remove the discriminatory provisions of the old D.P. act, and admit an additional 134,000 D.P.s in the next two years...
...about the British diet. It was Dr. Summerskill who, as Parliamentary Under Secretary to the Ministry of Food, helped introduce whale meat and snoek to British markets as substitutes for juicy roast beef and mutton saddles. "I thought," she had the grace to admit then, "that I would be politically finished," but her British constituents managed to forgive...
...before phone calls from indignant readers began to. come in, denouncing the editors for taking a ruler to the French when they couldn't get things right themselves. By the time almost a hundred readers had caught a single error, Le Figaro's editors were ready to admit that 500 Frenchmen and 12 pollsters could be wrong...