Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stuart wanted to make it perfectly clear that he had never disliked John Frank. "He was a very nice fellow," he said. But he had to admit that he didn't feel the least bit sorry. With an apologetic chuckle he confided: "I have no remorse at all. That's the bad part about it ... I shouldn't go on murdering people...
...perfection but none of Dali's tiresome bag of Freudian tricks. Sample Magritte subjects: a fountain-as cool and wet-looking as the real thing-which spouts crystal mirrors, crowns, hands and cornucopias; a cigar box puffing a cigar; a door, set up against the sky, opening to admit a cloud; a glassy-eyed nude crammed into a bottle, entitled "inspiration," a beach sprouting sorrowful, earthbound pigeons, whose dull green wings flap like leaves in the wind...
...better than a syllogistic tour de force: he believes the American Empire must build absolutely on monopoly control of atomic weapons by this country. Wishfully, he disregards or brands as communist rumors all statements by scientists that the Soviet has or can soon have similar weapons. This refusal to admit a fact invalidates his whole policy. Even on Burnham's amoral grounds, his plan is only a tragic joke...
Piracy roams the academic high seas. Last week two prominent Southern educators spoke out about it-though unofficially, because they didn't want to admit out loud that their own faculties were being pillaged...
...committed to a policy of deception and falsification, which advocate a disregard for the sacredness of an oath, and which while seeking to destroy all the traditional safeguards erected for the protection of individual rights are determined to take unfair advantage of those selfsame safeguards." The Commission had to admit that "because of the secretive manner and method of their operation," it did not know how many subversives are in the federal employ today...