Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Relieved, National Commander Edward N. Scheiberling whipped out a press release: ". . . source of gratification to the American Legion everywhere . . . sound sense of American fair play. . . ." Said the New York Times, "The Hood River Post is to be congratulated on having the courage to admit its mistake...
...have won a most important campaign, crashing 20-plus miles straight through the vaunted German defenses to reach the Rhine in seven swift days. What has been the outstanding characteristic of that resistance? Every day experts have been forced to admit that the resistance was "light" or at most "light to moderate." We have captured and will capture some of the Germans' most historic and strategically important towns, yet we cannot honestly claim to have crushed any important German army in the field...
...solution of the Communist question must be through political means. . . . The latest demand of the Communists is that the Government should forthwith liquidate the Kuomintang rule, and surrender all power to a coalition of various parties. The Government is ready to admit other parties, including the Communists ... to participate in the Government, without, however, relinquishment by the Kuomintang of its power of ultimate decision and final responsibility until the convocation of the National Assembly...
...much of what a citizen soldier learns is useful in later life? That depends a good deal on the soldier, but educators will not admit that it all depends on him. For returning veterans who want to go on with their schooling, educators are now trying to evaluate war's lessons in terms of academic credits...
Before he enlisted in 1943, black-haired, velvet-eyed Johnny sang with Bob Crosby and Gene Krupa. Then he signed up as a drummer-the Army does not admit "singer" as a musical classification-with Glenn Miller's Air Forces Band. (Major Miller has been missing since a December England-to-Paris flight, but the band continues to bear his name.) Desmond's G.I. job, which he is apparently doing sensationally well, is singing. His I'll Be Seeing You and Long Ago and Far Away, in phonetic French, makes young Parisians jump up & down, squeal "Bravo...