Word: admittedly
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...moral objections to birth control have declined radically in the U.S. in the years since World War II. Roman Catholic and Orthodox Jewish teachings generally consider contraception morally wrong. But many members of these faiths do not, and some two-thirds of American Catholic women now admit that they practice birth control. In the U.S., in fact, more than 80% of the 26.5 million married women in their fertile years now use some kind of contraceptive regularly, more than a third of them relying on the Pill to prevent pregnancy. Sterilization of both men and women is also...
Italian authorities, who unblinkingly insist that 95% of all mail is delivered on time, nonetheless admit that there is a daily backlog of 5,000 tons of mail; newspapers charge that it is more like 12,000 tons. Whatever the figure, the backlog is so huge that cynics have suggested that the mountain of undelivered mail be junked and that the post office start all over again. Someone in the system seems to agree: in June, Italian police discovered that 200 tons of undelivered mail had been sold to a Bergamo processing plant for recycling...
...time being, however, there seems little likelihood of a mass invasion of France by amorous Americans. They will still have to surrender their passports at the hotel desk, meaning that, in practice, unwed couples may be reluctant to admit their liaison and have to sleep for the price of two-demurely in separate rooms, often on separate floors, connected by leering elevator operators. Nonetheless, as it always has, l'amour will doubtless find...
...Turkish invasion was inevitable from the beginning." The third error was for Washington, in the days following the coup, to state publicly that the Turks on Cyprus deserved greater autonomy, a statement that, although true, looked to Turkey like an invitation to invasion. State Department officials now privately admit that the statement should have carried a warning against the use of force. Once the Turks had decided on intervention, however, there was nothing Washington could do to stop them without using force itself. "Nothing anyone could have said or done before the invasion-short of a total Greek capitulation-would...
Press reports, including interviews with high-ranking law-enforcement officers, admit that there has been an "acceleration" of juvenile delinquency. A recent television program in a series on law enforcement was devoted to the story of a teen-age gang that killed two tellers in a Ukraine bank robbery. Literaturnaya Gazeta not long ago ran a detailed account of an incident reminiscent of a macabre scene from A Clockwork Orange: two teen-agers beat to death four drunken adults in the industrial city of Chelyabinsk...