Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...detective methods used by the FBI in apprehending the eight Nazis, other saboteurs might be harder to catch. That much was true. But the generals developed a consuming passion for Star Chamber secrecy. Even before the trial began, no one in the Department of Justice building was allowed to admit officially that anything was going...
...people but for the U.S. Government. He was not going to exert the authority which he had (under the Executive Order which created his job) to make the Army & Navy loosen up on information. He did not choose to fight for it. But he had made the services admit his right to consult with them about news releases. And already he had showed that he could get something from them that way. The question was: Could he get enough to satisfy the nation...
China is Fearsome. Educated patriots in the big cities have a bogged-down, fatalistic faith in the victory of the United Nations, but, though they hate to admit it, they are impressed by Japanese successes. Hearing Allied propaganda of huge air armadas and vast production, they wonder why the Allies can do no better. The coolie-in-the-street is beginning to feel uncertain about the outcome...
...bumpy acres of Texas to practice to beat Rommel. There Army tacticians are trying out new ways to fight tanks with new weapons: World War II's tank destroyers-self-propelled, forward-pointing guns of .75 caliber and up. Army men, giving the devil his due, admit that the guns are inspired by Germany's self-propelled 88s, used successfully by the Germans in Poland and ever since...
...A.R.P., a little dashed by the public wrath, lay low. But that the A.R.P. was fingering fresh tear-gas bombs one of its press officers seemed to admit in a cheerful statement. People caught without gas masks, said he, "can act as casualties, which makes the exercises of the gas services much more realistic...