Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said a Communist leader this week: "The Communist Party supports the Provisional Government, but does not admit that it represents the people's will. We will support the Government for the sake of unity. De Gaulle has promised an election when the prisoners and deportees return. He has promised to turn the Government over to the elected representatives of the people. The Government must not-the Government dare not-thwart the will of the people...
...right is finished as a political force. The right is the first to admit it. Its only chance is military rule. 2) The Communist Party is the strongest political force in France. Though it probably does not represent a majority of the nation, it may well come into power-as much because of the disorganization of its foes as because of its own strength...
...Anything. In Chicago, Mrs. Rita Hatfield ran to answer the telephone, tripped over her dog, smashed through a glass-topped table, found that the person on the wire was making a home-accident insurance survey, had to admit she was uncovered...
...bedbug is harder to poison. Unlike the roach, it is an epicure: it feeds on human blood. A loathsome, wingless insect, it is light brown and flat before feeding, swells up and turns mahogany afterward. Chief difficulty in fighting bedbugs : housewives hate to admit their presence. Though the common bedbug hurts little except family pride, a relative known as the "kissing bug" transmits Chagas' disease (a deadly parasitic disease originating in Brazil) to human beings. A Lethane spray is the most effective bedbug poison...
...flat-dweller wrestled with his Morrison shelter-a flat, tablelike, metal affair, raised from the floor to admit mattress and sleeper, its sides wire-meshed against flying furniture, bricks-and glass. The bumped head (from mismeasured diving under the Morrison) was no longer worth even a casual remark...