Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Bandleader Guy Lombardo, the defending champion, half obscured by his helmet and Mae West as he hunched in the cockpit of his 600-h.p., red-gold-&mahogany Tempo VI. More than a famous name and expensive pressagentry made Lombardo the favorite. Other speedboat drivers had to admit that he was "a hot chauffeur" with a well-balanced boat that should have plenty of staying power in a long race...
...late in the afternoon when Johnny arrived in the committee room, and he was still groggy from lack of sleep after his flying trip back from France. He was on the stand only 15 minutes the first day, just long enough to admit he had known Elliott Roosevelt. Then he went off to bed. Next day the lid blew...
...week. In the BBC Quarterly, BBC Publicity Director Kenneth Adam observed smugly that "the 25-year relationship between broadcasting and the press in Great Britain has not been complicated, as it has in the U.S., by competition for the attention of the advertisers." Despite this, he was forced to admit that, even in Britain, press-radio relations were not exactly ticketyboo. There is, he conceded, "a rivalry over the supply of news to the public...
...France, Britain's pigeon fanciers let loose some 4,000 prize birds in the France-to-England Grand National and Northeast Lancashire classics. Only 50% of the birds returned to England, but pigeon racers are philosophical about their hobby. What with the heat and bad flying weather, they admit, many a pigeon just hasn't the guts to stay the distance. Others meet French lady friends on the way home and decide to give up racing. What burned the pigeon people was the callous remark made by London's Columnist Paul Holt. "Well," he asked, "would...
...take over the police function at any time. Every citizen has a great duty to defend orderly process and the law as it stands, changing the law at will as his ideas about his society changes. This is very simple minded and rather 18th century, I'll admit, but no one has demonstrated that an administrative procedure based on mob violence, curbed at intervals by arbitrary police power either in Germany or Russia or Spain is a better system...