Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to get my age because I don't want Hunt and Stowell to know," he said. "I will admit this, though when it comes to intelligence, I'm a rock of ages," McCurdy modestly acknowledged...
This is hardly a novel outlook, nor is it devoid of any merit. Most of the ballplayers on this year's squad will readily admit that they play the game more for fun than anything else. Few hopes for professional contracts are maintained in the IAB, and the high-powered edge of big-time basketball is non-existent there...
Bancroft had little more success in trying to show that West was an ally of the Hearsts. West did admit that he had sent the parents a sympathetic letter before the arrest advising them that their daughter "might turn out to be in a condition to be helped and possibly defended." West added that he wrote the letter "as one parent to another. I got no reply and didn't expect...
...even a partisan like Bruccoli will admit that O'Hara's novels never quite measure up to his short stories. He had matured as a short story writer. By the 1960's, the early wandering sketches he had published in the New Yorker had gradually evolved into well-plotted and elegant short stories. If, as Norman Mailer (another Nobel-chaser) once wrote, the real short story writer is a jeweler, then O'Hara's best short fiction has the brilliance of carefully polished jewelry. O'Hara's later short story style depends on a clean, taut prose that unobtrusively serves...
Fifty-five people showed up at Malek's first study group to hear what he calls his "war stories." "There's definitely a demand for Malek here," Hayden says. "Hell, I mean whatever you say about Nixon you've got to admit he tried some new things...