Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deal was further dampened by a fact which neither Woodhead nor Gross would dare to admit publicly: that they and all other big aircraft manufacturers are facing one of the industry's worst financial storms. One big cause is the shuffle of military budgets, which will cut deeply into the planemakers' surest and richest market. A bigger one is that the planemakers are unalterably entangled with plane operators, whose troubles are headline topics...
...been missing in China for more than three years. His other son, the idealistic Chris, has come home, swallowed his father's protestations of innocence, and arranged to marry his missing brother's fiancee. But Chris's mother will not hear of it; she will not admit that Larry is dead. It becomes clear that she cannot admit it without recognizing the enormity (she has long known the truth) of her husband's misdeed. Eventually Chris, too, faces the truth. The old man, after agreeing to confess and go to prison, shoots himself...
...secret, though he would rarely admit it, this is perhaps what he wants from us more than anything else...
Last week Sol Hurok, ballet's Barnum, who has done as much as anyone to make the art an industry, confessed in Variety: "Ballet, we must admit, is not an essential commodity. The public can live without...
...Perfect Marriage (Hal Wallis; Paramount) takes a minor domestic spat and blows it up into a very flossy parlor-&-bedroom comedy. On their tenth wedding anniversary, David Niven and Loretta Young admit out loud that the thrill is gone. They are irritated-have been, let's face it, for years-by one another's eccentricities. What's more, each detests the other's family. And there is that old, old argument about Loretta's continuing her career as a celebrated fashion editor...