Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to admit that I hold a grudge against Yale from that freshman game," Milt said before Saturday's encounter. "I still remember that cheap shot from their defensive back, and that makes this game mean a little extra...
Nonetheless, even Giscard's supporters admit that the government has been maladroit in handling the present strike crisis. During early negotiations with the postal workers, Pierre Lelong, Secretary of State for the Postal Service, called the task of sorting mail "an idiot's job." The unions are now insisting that negotiations be carried on by Premier Jacques Chirac, on the ground that Lelong is incompetent. After last week's police attack on the picketers, it appears that both sides were occupying entrenched positions...
...their absolute rejection of Marxist economics, for example, the senior faculty was rejecting both a societal analysis and, more importantly perhaps, a view of themselves that dragged them into the dirt of the social system. To recognize the radicals' claims would, the radicals say, require the tenured faculty to admit the possibility that their view of truth, objectivity and the independent power of ideas and intellectuals--in short, their identity as academics--wrong...
Arriving in Cairo, Kissinger admitted that the Rabat summit's endorsement of Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat had "complicated matters." As it happened, Arafat was also in the Egyptian capital, to discuss his forthcoming visit to the U.N. with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Kissinger refused to admit the possibility that he and the fedayeen leader might confer face to face. "We'd be crazy to switch our signals and push the Israelis into dealing with Arafat now," said a U.S. official...
...incident. Rather plaintively, he acknowledged that his behavior after the accident had been "irrational and indefensible and inexcusable and inexplicable." Kennedy stuck to the main points of his original story, sometimes ducking tough questions by referring the reporters to his inconclusive testimony at the official inquest. He did admit, however, that he had erred in telling the court that he had never been on Chappaquiddick before the day of the accident, and that he had fixed the time of his return to the cottage after the accident by the dashboard clock of a Valiant driven by his cousin and sometime...