Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admit with perfect equanimity that within a few years we will be only 50,000,000 whereas the Germans will be 80,000,000!" summed up Orator Mussolini, with a certain ambiguity for a peace speech. "But the Germans will not be on one but on ten frontiers, among which the Italian is the frontier between two friendly peoples-an intangible frontier...
Ninety per cent attended college, but they invariably admit their inability to cope with the complexities of modern government and economics in their writing. Many of the candidates want to study the problems of propaganda and public opinion...
...Combing the river," as natives call such biannual shark drives, baffled Father Laplante completely, baffled as well those who saw his film. Even the missionary, who has spent ten years trying to implant French Catholicism in Fiji, was ready to admit possibility of something preternatural. He remembered having tried to convert a certain native. The man demurred; he was already a Methodist. When the tribe combed the river, the dusky Methodist waded inside the net with the vampire-priests, was bitten by a shark...
...casual acquaintances, where they confided in strangers and insulted their friends, where enough brutal monstrosities turned up to give substance to their fears and suspicions. Readers might feel that Author O'Hara had not answered all the questions about his Glorias and Julians, but they had to admit that he had followed them through their hangovers, into their bedrooms and breakdowns, and left no doors closed behind...
Logically a person believing in the overthrow of the government by violence should not be permitted to participate in the management of that government. Communists who admit that validity of this principle would apply it to Fascists; Fascists would apply it to Communists; most people would apply it to both. But practical people would oppose the action of the legislature because they realize that the overthrow of American capitalism would probably result from something a trifle more serious than the appointment of a communist to the key position of confidential examiner in the office of the Borough President of Manhattan...