Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco's problems of supply and rationing have been additionally complicated by almost-indigestible masses of servicemen on leave, especially from the big naval establishments around the bay. No one would admit having blown the whistle on the situation, but Navy authorities announced last week that liberty for enlisted men would have to be cut down "in order to reduce present overtaxing of public and private facilities." The San Francisco News said "civilian complaints" were responsible...
...Crowds cheered the John Steinbeck play The Moon Is Down. In the Stockholm Concert Hall, Professor Nils Ahnlund promised that soon "the trolls will be hunted back into the woods." Then he spoke a truth that all Swedes, regardless of any onetime admiration or rationalization of Naziism, now freely admit...
...boats. The Allied navies still expected to have a difficult struggle for months to come. Said Germany's Vice Admiral Friedrich Lützow, broadcasting last week: "We willingly concede that our enemies leave nothing undone to make it very difficult for our U-boats. We admit that the enemy is doing everything in his power to render his anti-U-boat defenses ever more effective, to replace the losses by new construction and by strengthening discipline among his crews . . . the fight will become ever harder. We are prepared for this...
...airmen believe that such rights should be unrestricted. They see in com plete freedom of the air a great threat to weak countries, through surprise bombing raids over well-scouted territory. But they admit no reason why the nations cannot agree upon limited rights to foreign air lines which will tie the world closer than it has ever been before in trade, and there fore in understanding...
...single, dominant man, the "hero," absorbs Hook. He should not be confused with the simply eventful man such as Columbus. "Most historians would be ready to admit that, even if his ships had foundered, the new world would have been discovered . . . the whole period was one of enterprise and discovery. . . ." The hero, the event-making man, does not simply find "a fork in the historical road" -he helps create the fork. He is unique, irreplaceable. Event-making men: Caesar, Cromwell, Napoleon...