Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When I read TIME'S review, I must admit the excitement of the critic communicated itself to me, and since I'm fortunate (in this case) to live in Boston, I went over and saw it. ... For the first time in my life, I was able to see Shakespeare in his proper perspective...
Other speakers followed. "We want unity," they shouted. "But we admit opposition-only, of course, to the point where it does not manifest itself. That is democracy. . . . For 15 years Ferdinand Lop, as he took off his pants at night, envisaged taking power the next day. Every morning, as he pulled on his socks, he was no closer to holding power. You must admit that such a man with the same idea for 15 years is not normal. That is why we who are normal follow...
...Committee points a finger, too, at Britain, the United States, and the United Nations. It tells the British to fulfill their trust, to cease mouthing phrases about the necessity of disarming the weak, oil-less Jews, to admit that it is the powerful Moslem states which they fear; it asks Americans to give more than empty words; it challenges the UN to assume the burden its charter claims. The honesty and logic of the report of the Committee of Inquiry will make its conclusions, conscience-like, dog the nations and their leaders until the long-sought solution to the problem...
...hostelry, opened in 1874 after $1,000,000 had been spent on construction, will be made available to either married veterans and their wives or single graduate students. If it is decided to admit couples, approximately 100 will be given two-room suites; if single men are to be accomodated, there will be room for nearly 200. In either case, a dining room will be operated on the main lobby floor...
...astray by the . . . very English idea that it is necessary to salvation to admit the more inclement states of weather to the bedchamber. Our forefathers slept with closed windows without hurt...