Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel great hostility in order to play hard, but whose conscience tells him that hostility is a bad thing. The woman?these days she is usually over 35?for whom beating her husband or trying to win at all may be a deep and sensitive taboo. Many women admit that they want to win, but feel "I'm being mean" when they do. Gallwey, for example, has watched superior women players breeze into a 5-1 or 5-2 score over their husbands, only to find themselves unable to put the set away by winning the sixth and final game...
...quake that struck the Chinese capital and demolished the nearby industrial city of Tangshan last month. Two days later, a seismic jolt damaged more than a hundred homes on the Izu Peninsula 80 miles south of Tokyo. Scientists said the close sequence of quakes was probably coincidental, though they admit the rash of recent earthquakes in the Far East is disturbing and may suggest that some seismic process that is not yet fully understood may be taking place...
Establishment Hit Men: I wish I could write this without mentioning two of the most irresponsible reporters alive today--Rowland Evans and Robert Novak--but I'll throw in the towel and admit that many people now believe they are paid members of President Ford's reelection campaign...
Climatologists admit that they really do not know. A substantial number believe the earth is undergoing a cooling trend and is returning to the conditions of the "Little Ice Age"-the generally cold, damp weather that prevailed from around 1600 to 1850. British Climatologist Hubert Lamb believes the change is cyclical, occurring every 200 years or so. Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin and many others blame the earth's cooling on an increase of dust particles in the atmosphere; the particles act like tiny mirrors, reflecting back some of the sunlight sinking the atmosphere and depriving...
...problem restated by this book is more than a joke and less than a na tional crisis. To their credit, the authors usually hover somewhere between these extremes. They admit that social attitudes cannot be changed overnight simply by inventing words. But even such terms as "Ms" and "chairperson" they insist, really do help meet needs created by the growing independence and authority of women. Many people (not all of them men) would rather scrape their fingernails across a blackboard than hear such ugly and artificial neologisms especially when they are propounded on the unproved assumption that it will...