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Word: admittedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cannot be extradited to the U.S. Meanwhile, the Virginia dossier on the case is being forwarded from Virginia to Greece. Last week in Athens, Michaelides asked: "What had I to gain by murdering the woman I loved? Inheritance? I refused all rights to it when she died." He did admit, though, that after her death, he accepted presents of $100,000 from each of her two brothers as a "show of sympathy and liking." He maintained that his former wife's death was clearly a suicide and that she had tried to take her life twice before, once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Gothic Romance in Old Virginia | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...more fervently denouncing or plugging a book-having discovered television's inpatience with verbal nuances. Reporters and columnists working for the strike-born papers seem less impressive than usual. Can it be that the role of editors in making news judgments is more crucial than writers like to admit? Or perhaps, on interim papers, reporters are like football players in a postseason Hula Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: Without Newspapers, Less Happens | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...Somerville Lumber Company sued Marie Howe and her friend Walter Silva for almost $3500, for not paying for a shipment of lumber and other building materials. Howe now admits that she in fact received the goods from Somerville Lumber after ordering them. But in sworn testimony "signed under the pains and penalties of perjury," Howe denied ever receiving the building materials. The case was eventually settled out of court. Somerville Lumber owner Harold Cohen refused to talk about the suit, apparently fearing retribution by the Howe family. "I admit it," he said. "I'm a coward...

Author: By Mark A. Feldstein, | Title: Patronage, Nepotism and Conflict of Interest | 11/4/1978 | See Source »

...club's graduate board. While the graduate board does not determine the club's day-to-day operation and social activities, they can make the final decision about any club policy or activity. Last year, for example, the graduate board of the D.U. overruled the club's decision to admit women to their ranks...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: From Pig to Porc: The Changing World of Final Clubs | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...photo of the Queensboro Bridge falling into the East River under the weight of 10,000 marathon runners. Another story, under the headline FALL SEASON THROWN INTO CONFUSION BY STUDIO 54 BLAZE; ISRAELI REACTION MUTED, tells how the disco burned to the ground after Owner Steve Rubell refused to admit the firemen because they were not chic enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: All the News That's Fun to Print | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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