Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dean of First-Years Elizabeth S. Nathans. Office of the Dean of First-Years. First-Year Orientation Week. The First-Year Mixer. We admit that these constructions, using the term "first-year" rather than "freshman," may not be entirely aesthetically pleasing. Yet they would make an important statement: that Harvard is committed enough to gender equality and neutrality to go through the trouble of changing its stationery and its phone books...
...reputation of elitism has lived on, and former house residents usually admit to Eliot's "snobby reputation" even while denying it exists...
Officials in Beijing admit that the war games China has conducted near Taiwan over the past few weeks were meant to persuade Taiwan voters to shun any candidate advocating independence for Taiwan instead of the view that it is an integral part of China. That criticism was aimed directly at Lee, even though he has never directly questioned Taiwan's status as part of China. Lee's government has sought a more prominent role for Taiwan around the world, leading to suspicions that he might favor independence...
Suponcic, being a public official, knew his way around the local police department, and soon a detective started pounding the Net. By tracing the header information on the Usenet postings, the detective determined--O.K., this part is murky, we admit--that the messages had originated in Ohio, passed through Florida Online, an Internet provider in the Sunshine State, and then through anon.penet.fi a free E-mail remailer service based in Finland that allows Internet users to post messages anonymously...
...result of such promptings as the leaves. For seasons release us from time and space, and usher us into an order higher than ourselves, or nation, or ideology; not so much a collective religion, perhaps, as a religion of collectivism. And seasons rescue us from private winters and admit us to a larger rhythm as unanswerable as the dawn...