Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been realized at the time: acting apparently on the principle that if you can't lick 'em, join 'em, the Metropolitan Sergei of Moscow had joined the Bolsheviks. Not that he ceased to be a Christian or acquired a party-book (the Communist Party does not admit Christians to membership). What Sergei did was to take literally the Soviet Government's decree that the business of the Russian Orthodox Church was religion and nothing else (a revolutionary attitude in a country where for hundreds of years the Church had been part of the state). He also...
...sergeants who discovered Lady Moe now know the joke is not on her. Last week they were ready to admit: "She's our legend and we're stuck with...
...incident" was a small explosion touched off by the Stars & Stripes in Italy in an editorial entitled: "He Wants Home." Sure, the U.S. doughboy wants to go home, said the editorial, but "there is hardly a thinking man . . . who doesn't admit that it would be foolish to throw away all the battle experience picked up by our veteran troops by sending them home to sit in garrisons...
When I was shipped out to India quite early in the war, I must admit that I, along with my brother officers and enlisted men, openly ridiculed the men of the British forces...
Court v. Congress. Professor Commager might admit that the bogey remains: representatives of the people might threaten the integrity of the Bill of Rights. But the Professor does not trust the Supreme Court to protect freedom. The record of history, he says, "reveals no instance (with the possible exception of the dubious Wong Wing case) where the Court has intervened on behalf of the underprivileged-the Negro, the alien, women, children, workers, tenant-farmers.* It reveals, on the contrary, that the Court has effectively intervened again and again to defeat congressional efforts to free slaves, guarantee civil rights to Negroes...