Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the eyes of the U.S. turned with fear and questioning on Eisenhower as he faced the gravest setback of his career. The invasion was his first great responsibility; this his second. But Eisenhower refused to admit that a battle was lost while it was still being fought. He proclaimed to his troops...
...first, Rose ducked the swarms of newsmen who hounded her at home and at the candy counter where she works. But her older brother told reporters: "I don't want to speak out of turn, but I'll admit that my sister is upset. I can't imagine her taking him back now. I was in the other war and I know something about these things...
Like his readers, Mr. Punch refuses to admit that the rigors of a last-ditch war are anything more than necessary nuisances. His attitude is typified by the recent cartoon in which two men watch a new secret weapon-a buzzbomb with a loud speaker-flying over their heads. Says one: "I'm told that five seconds after the whirring sound stops it shouts a rude remark by Goebbels...
...literate, right-thinking Americans know that the first college in the nation to admit women students was Blount College (now the University of Tennessee). William Blount, Governor of the Territory South of the Ohio, secured admission of his daughter Barbara, Kittie Kain, Colonel McClung's daughter, and three other young ladies of the capital's aristocracy to the institution named...
While pouring out the good news last week, Chairman Krug cagily kept his hand over the label, refused to admit that corn would be released to distillers for bourbon during January. But this year's corn crop is a record 3,258,000,000 bushels, some 61,000,000 bushels more than estimated a month ago, while corn-consuming hogs are down 25% from 1943. If War Food Administration's December announcement releases corn for bourbon, no one will be greatly surprised, few will be unhappy...