Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Fadiman came F. P. A. (The late Alexander Woollcott scorned the proposition only to admit later on: "I thought it was a lousy idea. I was wrong.") Adams was adamant until Golenpaul asked...
When President Roosevelt returned from Casablanca, White wrote: "Well, it is now 60 hours since the Old Smiler returned to the White House from his great adventure. . . . Biting nails-good, hard, bitter Republican nails-we are compelled to admit that Franklin Roosevelt is the most unaccountable and on the whole the most enemy-baffling President that this United States has ever seen. He has added a certain vast impudent courage to a vivid but constructive imagination and he has displayed his capacity for statesmanship in the large and simple billboard language that the common people can understand. . . . Well, darn your...
Later Winchell had simmered down sufficiently to admit that he had been wrong in questioning the right of voters to vote any way they want to. Woods, he said, told him to go ahead as before, but use better judgment. Said Winchell: "It was just a frank discussion between businessmen. I am not muzzled...
...Kurd's hell was his confusion of conscience and cowardice. He was too cowardly to try again with his wife or even to admit sympathy for her; too cowardly to ask her to divorce him; too cowardly to admit to himself that Constance had anything to do with his desire for divorce; too cowardly to break the news, when Barbara did divorce him, to their daughter; too cowardly, finally, to marry Constance when that became possible. In his misery he found a return to the womb-a girl named Briggsy...
...last week-though New York City was still digging itself out of a blizzard-even fatalistic Harry Bauer would admit that he owed his booming business more to the war than to the Lord. For the East Coast fuel-oil crisis had sent customers scurrying to buy steam a la carte instead of trying to generate their own. This plays right into the hands of New York Steam, which already has its mains running through the heart of the city...