Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking Credit. The Sultan was appalled, and sent his Marrakech police to investigate. But the Moundamah Seria refused to admit them to the palace, refused to release the Glaoui sons until the huge estate could be examined and any fraudulent holdings returned to "the people." While the French government demanded the sons' release, the Sultan dithered, torn between his pledge of protection to El Glaoui's sons and the awkwardness of backing his feudal enemy against his Istiqlal supporters. The Sultan was reluctant to admit that he was not in full control of his young country. After...
...while, he favored jai alai and polo. He had barely learned about the dangers of bobsledding when he was picked to represent Spain in the winter Olympics. "The mere fact that we race requires no courage on our part," he wrote in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. But he was frank to admit that he was often afraid. "I think what frightens me most is that when I have actually lost control of the car there is absolutely nothing I can do except sit still, frozen with fear, and wait for events to take their natural course. All it requires is one very...
...that the white man's day is done, and are convinced that the African is ready to take over without help, speak too quickly. Without British aid and guidance, Ghana's ambitious Twi Tribesman Nkrumah could never have founded his nation, and he is the first to admit it. "If the British were to leave tomorrow," says a leader of the Nigerian independence movement, "I would be the first one down on the docks asking them to leave their clothes and their shoes behind...
...Sanch Mejullas before, and traces of the New York experience can be found in the tragedies, especially Blood Wedding, but by and large Lorca did take up the old forms again. Some critics in this country and in Europe, especially those still plugging for the surrealists, are loath to admit this...
...Court of Public Opinion is another legal defense of Alger Hiss, witness and then defendent. It is as disappointing to those liberals who expected Hiss to write passionately about his generation of "bright young men," as it is to those who believed that Hiss would finally break down and admit that Whittaker Chambers was telling the truth after all. Hiss never swerves from his past testimony, denying all of Chambers' assertions, including the two counts of perjury on which his second jury found him guilty...