Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blasted Hopes. During the past fortnight the position of the Finnish Government has been dynamited. The army's defensive position has been broken and the military now admit that the eastern Karelian front between Lakes Ladoga and Onega (which they had previously considered an excellent natural defense) is actually almost indefensible. At the crucial moment, the Germans failed to deliver military...
Strategy in the Dark. German officialdom does not yet admit that Germany has lost the war. The official reasoning...
Among scientific threats to human happiness has long lurked the possibility that somebody would take all the joy out of eating by evolving a diet of pure chemicals. Last week three St. Louis doctors, headed by William Harwood Olmsted, announced that they had done it. The mixture, they admit, is so nasty it has to be given by stomach tube...
...Their standards of food, sanitation and comfort are so high and their astonishment and disgust when expected to put up with lower standards so unfeigned and unrancorous that the Germans, unwilling to admit that their own standards are lower, are shamed into making improvements...
Twentieth Century officials readily admit that the stock options are a move to 1) give Skouras a bonus; 2) hog-tie him to the company by inducing him to acquire a sizable stock interest (see below...