Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parts of Ethiopia. Provincial bureaucrats kept the horrific dimensions of the catastrophe secret from Addis Ababa, fearing that bad news would anger and embarrass Emperor Haile Selassie and perhaps lead to their own dismissal. Finally, last spring, the number of deaths grew so great that the bureaucrats had to admit their existence and ask for international aid. At first the drought seemed confined to eastern Ethiopia. But a new government survey uncovered big pockets of famine to the south and southeast of the capital. In Bale province alone an estimated 27,000 cattle, 25,000 sheep and goats...
...this liberal atmosphere, some bisexuals are advocating their life-style as the best of both worlds. They stress the importance of sexual options and of not cutting themselves off from half of the population. Others admit to problems. They say that friends of both sexes shy away from them, fearful of being propositioned. Those bisexuals who turn to the homosexual community for support often find themselves shut out there too. Sociologists Philip Blumstein and Pepper Schwartz at the University of Washington in Seattle have made a study of 150 men and women who claim to be bisexuals. Says Blumstein: "Bisexual...
...Nixon is the first to admit even humor has its limits. "I will never forget when I heard about this [adjective deleted] first bugging," Nixon remarks. "I thought, what the hell is this? What is the matter with these people? Are they crazy? I thought they were nuts! A prank! But it wasn't! It wasn't very funny! I think that our Democratic friends know that, too." Nevertheless, on occasion even John W. Dean III--generally consigned by the transcribers to the thankless role of a suck-up straight man--rises to Nixonian heights of sarcasm. "We were bugged...
...want to admit--dammit"--an entirely disillusioned Nixon adds the next day--"that nobody's so dumb to say that the--which they are, of course." And a day after that he trails off entirely...
Nevertheless, as much as I can understand the motives for bending history a bit here and there, I have to admit I was disappointed to read the gross manhandling of the truth in one part of the Crimson story, "Strikers from '69: Five Years Later" (April 19, 1974). My former Social Studies tutee, Mark Dyen, is quoted telling a tale that is simply not true. In addition it is a gratutitous insult against several police officers who were acting quite responsible...