Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which we boast? If a man who is tired of hearing of death and planned murder is stupid, Lord! let me be d-d stupid. If a man who feels that he does not know how to help mankind out of the cesspool it is now in, and admits it, is a moron, I admit of no defense. Once I deplored the stupidity of the ivory-tower artists; there I made a mistake. Ivory towers may fall and the occupants may be crushed, but who would not choose to be crushed rather than to swelter in a stinking cesspool...
Dear Father: We had a grand day on Friday with three patrols. On the first we had a glorious dogfight with about nine Messerschmitt nos which caught a proper pasting. I must admit that they were heavily outnumbered. On the second trip we had an uneventful brush with some Messerschmitt 1095. It was the last trip which was the most fun. About twelve Junkers type 88 bombers came in and, after losing two from anti-aircraft fire, were set on by some Hurricanes. As we climbed up to them we had the pleasure of seeing one dart past us, hotly...
...sake, let's be frank! If we must, fight Germany, let's admit that our real motive is the survival of capitalism and not Christianity...
...leap of science in recent years is the splitting of the massive uranium atom, heaviest of the 92 standard elements, into nearly equal parts, with enormous returns of atomic energy (TIME, Feb. 6, 1939; May 27). Even physicists who turn up their noses at Buck Rogers talk had to admit that the practical harnessing of atomic power was now much nearer-though they still insist it is far off. When a slow-moving neutron hits the uranium atom's nucleus, the nucleus is constricted around the middle and finally splits, like an amoeba reproducing itself. But though the energy...
...this argument, everyone will agree, particularly with Dr. Beard's insistence that we worry about American democracy, not about policing the world. The argument itself is less convincing. A big doubtful area has to do with the question of our readiness to fight in case of invasion. If we admit the possibility of fighting in South American in two years, we had better start preparing...