Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long time after that, old Michael Joyce of Dulwich Common, London refused to admit that Lord Haw-Haw was his son. He would not listen to Haw-Haw's voice...
...miss methods, Army doctors have found that one out of every 100 draftees has t.b. Officials admit that "some" cases were caught long after soldiers began training, and then only because the disease was well advanced...
...distorted facts, half-truths, or inventions-the writer can follow one of three courses. He can hunt desperately for more facts with which to prop up the original lie; he can say nothing more about it and rely on his readers to forget the blunder; or he can frankly admit his mistake and correct the injustice...
Emmet Lucey says: "Isolation is a spiritual, cultural and industrial impossibility. To profess neutrality in the face of international crime is to deny the existence of a moral order. Unprovoked aggression in starting a war and barbaric savagery in conducting it constitute murder and injustice. These do not admit of neutrality." Young for an archbishop (he was 50 last fortnight), Emmet Lucey's appointment is another earnest of the present Pope's desire to give U. S. Catholicism vigorous leaders. Significantly, his seminary classmate in Rome and close friend is the U. S. prelate who seems destined...
...sirens sounded. Lady Astor and her guests stepped outside and watched what she had to admit was "a magnificent sight": flares falling from an armada of Nazi planes, then incendiary bombs planting their fateful beacons, then murder in high explosives. Calm as a Drake, Nancy Astor took note of something which dawned on all Britain last week. The air raids had become part of the Battle of the Atlantic...