Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only one hope: of having some extraordinarily effective secret weapon. The revolt of German generals just now after Germany has so jubilantly propagandized the success of their secret robot bomb and more dangerous future secret weapons, shows that German generals, who certainly are in a position to know, openly admit by their revolt that there is no such secret weapon and therefore no hope for Germany. PAUL CHERKASSKY Boston...
Critics promptly suggested that the Government ask itself the same question. Snapped Toronto's Globe and Mail: "Are you [the Government] men or mice. . . . Have we the guts to admit that our policy was dictated by political cowardice? . . . It is not a pretty challenge. Yet, in the language of the Government, it is proper and just. It is a poor defense for cowardice to scream 'Coward...
...armaments. . . The whole State machinery, including the railroads, post office, institutions and enterprises, will be scrutinized . . . for the Wehrmacht. . . . Public life [and] public performances are to be adapted to the aim of total war. . . . Our enemies believe that we are at our end; they will soon have to admit, to their own horror, that we are now no more than starting in many fields. . . . The small clique of traitors . . . [who] tried desperately to play government . . . miscalculated. They can't play Badoglio with us. ... The Almighty desires that we should continue to earn our victory, so that...
...accusation, I admit, is based upon fragmentary evidence-upon the six clippings which I received yesterday and upon a few recent Honolulu and West Coast papers which have drifted in here. I know this story broke at a time when it had to compete with several other big stories: the investment of Cherbourg, the flight of B-29s to Japan, the Republican National Convention. The American press, with its stubborn refusal to recognize the Pacific, played it for a very bad fourth...
...paid on the bells. The customs men classified them as lump metal, on which there was a 45 per cent of value tax. Harvard claimed they were carillons, but, since they didn't come up to the U.S.carillon minimum of 23 bells, the tariff officials wouldn't admit it until shown the blueprints, which had empty spaces left for other bells...