Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australia and Ceylon. The Cocos Islands have belonged to the Ross dynasty ever since John Clunies-Ross I, Scottish skipper of an East Indiaman, settled there with his family in 1827. The Rosses are absolute rulers of their coconut-growing Malay subjects. By royal fiat the Cocos Islands positively admit no immigrants or ever re-admit emigrants...
...vulgar errors of Fibber's thinking. When OWI wanted to hit unnecessary travel, Quinn had Fibber attempt a 250-mile train trip, fail to get either a reservation or any sympathy ("If you insist on being bullheaded, why don't you take a cattle car!"), and finally admit that "the railroads have bitten off about as much as they can choo-choo...
Last week, the still unfinished Savage report was gathering dust-on State Department desks. Reasons for the delay were a State Department secret. Apparently, the U.S., instead of promoting the great market that cheap power might create in China, was unwilling to admit: 1) that China, like the U.S., must make her postwar plans now; 2) that China will one day become a great world industrial power...
Finally, Soviet addicts will not admit that (whatever the Commissar may say) Russian Communism has been so modified that it is practically capitalistic. A factory or collective-farm Commissar may not "own" the factory he rules, but he may derive from it as much wealth and more power than a capitalist tycoon...
Even the wisest of the dopesters was ready to admit that this was" a guess. The President had dropped no hint of what he planned, and neither had canny, sharp-eyed Jimmy Byrnes himself. But there was plenty of reason for believing that Byrnes, who had resigned a few days before Franklin Roosevelt's death (partly because of a huff over the three-votes-for-Russia deal at Yalta), was going back to work...