Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surprised, too, were the police. They assumed that he pushed his wife out the window. They questioned my aunt and tried to make her admit she had heard Bridges and his wife quarreling. They went upstairs into my aunt's kitchen and measured the distance between the windows of the two flats to ascertain if she could have heard any words, had there been...
These few facts are the one outstanding economic achievement of the Hitler. Government. Though most Germans are quick to admit that 90% of it is due to rearmament and the sudden expansion of the German Army, that achievement is the secret of Hitler's popularity at home...
...seamanship and the improvement of sailing vessels," it has 250 members (including 19 women) who cheerfully pay 100 guineas entrance fee, 100 guineas a year, has headquarters in a turreted fortress built by Henry VIII, later used as a state prison. Rigidly hostile to "trade," the Squadron refused to admit the late Sir Thomas Lipton (tea) even though he had been proposed at the request of King Edward VII, had spent a fortune trying to win the America's Cup for Britain. Furious with the Committee, King Edward reputedly summoned the Commodore, asked: "Can't it be done...
...neighboring fields "compelling the peasants to agree at the sword's point that Mile Curchod was the most beautiful person on earth." But when, after Suzanne had accepted him, his father refused to consider a penniless foreigner for a daughter-in-law, Gibbon took only two hours to admit his father was right, a crisis later summed up in his famed line: "I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...
Voluptuous, invitational Mae West, public passion of 50 million movie-going males, had to do last week the one thing every middle-aged woman hates most to do: admit having reached her middle forties. And she had to admit the other one thing that Mae West least wished to admit: that she is married...