Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the group has made no public statement as to whether it would favor sending troops abroad if the defeat of Hitler requires it, prominent members in the organization admit that they are leaning strongly in that direction...
...Defense Group does not define its term "toleration." It does not admit that the actual use of armed force may well not be necessary if it is now made unmistakably clear to Japan that force will be used if necessary." Such a statement removes this proposition from the class of material aid. It is tantamount to a threat...
...foremost Shakespearean scholars in the country, "Kitty" aptly settled the "who wrote Shakespeare" question by remarking, "Certainly I'll admit Bacon wrote Shakespeare if someone will tell me who wrote Bacon...
Gimpy's only fault is that he likes to land on the way home, sometimes leads his recruits into a grassy plot for a rest and stroll, while he stumps around, gabbling officiously. But no one in Fort Monmouth's pigeon company will admit that these fine feathered soldiers ever hitch rides on Army trucks...
More businessmen were under a strain than would admit it. Some thought the admission would sound like complaining, and there was little of that. Out of their long hours, businessmen began to draw new motives. For the first time, profits, quotas, competition half-faded from the executive mind. It was as though U. S. business was embarking on a vast corpo rate merger. Company after company sensed itself becoming a part of something bigger, the nation's defense...