Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embark on her first affair after leaving her husband and moving to the city alone, she thinks to herself, even as she is led to the bedroom, "Obviously there was nothing to do now but go through with it. It was what she wanted, she might as well admit it. She'd sensed it was going to be somebody eventually; how lucky that it was this man who was so attractive and sexy and seemed to like her." Every action by every man and woman who touches on the four central figures is explained away, forcing the weight of consequence...
...order to persuade, it is first important to admit that there are two sides to the discussion of admissions. Crying racist and claiming that Davis's supporters are attacking all minority students' competence duck the conservatives' insistence on maintaining standards of excellence in the first two years' academic work for all students, an argument that must be challenged. What is needed is an honest attack pointing up the limited link that these standards have with providing better distribution of health care in America...
Interrogation by hypnosis is not infallible. Mesmerized witnesses can fantasize, make mistakes, even lie. But handled with care, hypnosis does offer leads. "We take the information at face value and then verify it," says L.A.P.D. hypnotist Lieut. Ed Henderson. It is up to a judge to decide whether to admit testimony of witnesses whose memories have been jogged by hypnosis...
Whatever the provocation, the result is soon clear. A surprising number of men, in fact, admit to unbearable tennis behavior, reflecting on it bemusedly like sobered drunks, as if at a loss to explain what gets into them. Things go wrong even when they are trying hard to be helpful?sometimes for just that reason. Every tennis player has watched a husband encouraging his wife. The harder she tries, the more encouragement he offers. The worse she gets, the more he grits his teeth to be nice. Says one woman: "Even when he doesn't say anything, I feel watched...
...knock off another 50? and I'll buy double the amount," wheedles an old hand at the Detroit market. Many farmers do not put up much of a fight since they can pull in $1,000 on a good Saturday. Some of the farm folk even admit to a fondness for those odd city shoppers in their Lacoste shirts and Gucci shoes. Says Michael Temple, a grower from Brewster, N.Y., who peddles his produce in Manhattan each week: "The people here are nicer than back home, where there are farm stands all over the place...