Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High Pressure. William Francis was an advocate of high-pressure, high-temperature propulsion. The Navy squinted at his plans for its proposed 364 class of destroyers, finally gave him the order. Many a Navy man is ready to admit now that Gibbs was years ahead in his thinking. Many a Navy man admits now that if the high-pressure steam propulsion, which Gibbs had worked out with five U.S. manufacturers,* had not been adopted, the U.S. would have to fight its naval battles today with outmoded warships...
...experience has been in surface warfare. . . . Do you expect these old officers, many of whom have been openly antagonistic to air power as an independent force, suddenly to decide that victory over Germany can be won this year or next year only by bombing? Do you expect them to admit that they have been wrong? . . . At 60, an Army-Navy mind is a solid, impossible to aerate...
...Mohandas K. Gandhi's Indian National Congress party, Winston Churchill informed the House of Commons that the situation in India "gives no occasion for undue despondency or alarm." But from the facts he gave, and others he ignored or distorted, it was clear that the British will neither admit to themselves how serious unrest is in India, nor will they yield to Gandhi...
...British clung to the contention that Mohandas K. Gandhi was a pacifist traitor, an irrational screwball and a menace to India's safety. The Raj would not admit that the plan to crush Gandhi's threatened civil-disobedience campaign by suppressing the National Congress party was a monumental failure...
...Tyner believes that "the average man has more faith than he is willing to admit; you can talk to him about this as well as you can talk to him about a golf game." He got the idea for his column when he heard whispering about the propriety of his playing a round after church on Sundays. So he persuaded cherubic Sports Editor Charles Johnson of the Star-Journal to give him space to preach the gospel that Sunday sports are all right-but go to church...