Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poorly prepared meeting would be worse than none. He has reversed this view, and a certain desperation underlies the comments of some of his policy planners. Says one: "It is more risky to do nothing." Some officials feel that without a conference, war is likely. But as other officials admit, there is the opposite danger: the collapse of a Geneva conference would sharply increase the chances of a fifth Arab-Israeli conflict...
...constantly coming back nowadays, but I must admit that the Yazoo of my truest reality is a languid village on a summer's day of 30 years ago, when one big car whipping through with out-of-state plates was diversion enough. I know what Mark Twain meant when he returned to Hannibal: "I had a sort of realizing sense of what the Bastille prisoners must have felt when they used to come out and look upon Paris after years of captivity and note how curiously the familiar and the strange were mixed together before them...
...Rhodesia even under a black government. Some feel they have no choice; their life savings are often tied up in farms and homes Others are deciding to cut their losses and leave. "Yes, we're taking the chicken run," says a Scottish automobile worker "but nobody wants to admit it publicly. If the word gets out, the revenue office will be breathing down your neck to see if you're not fiddling some extra cash out." An emigrant is entitled to take his household effects, his car and about $1,600 in cash-hardly enough to start...
...funds were briefly withheld from a Connecticut school on the ground that its boys' choir, by existing, encouraged sexist discrimination-and never mind the unique musical reasons why boys have always been assembled into singing groups. Government bureaucrats looked ridiculous in that instance because of their failure to admit a common-sense truth: some exclusivity-by race, sex, color and creed as well as by calling-arises not for bad but for good reasons. White Democratic Congressman Fortney H. Stark of California suffered a similar failure a couple of years ago when he applied for membership in the congressional...
College students cluster in the lobby of a Pittsburgh Holiday Inn, taking a break from workshop sessions on how to sell textbooks in the summertime. Only the aberrant lounger among them would admit to not being a moviegoer. The students' age and educational bracket put them squarely in one of Hollywood's most devoted and tuned-in markets. Robert Redford or Jack Nicholson or Al Pacino could not walk through this crowd unrecognized; Brando might provoke understated pandemonium. Suddenly, the hottest actor now at work in films appears in the lobby and passes through. No one notices. Robert...