Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...youngsters wobble a little. Critics were inclined to put down a good deal of their oomph to Stokowski's credit. But as .they packed up their fiddles and horns to start their tour of South America, via Baltimore, Washington and Manhattan, even the severest critic had to admit that Leopold Antony Stokowski in two small weeks had whipped together an orchestra that could already claim sixth or seventh place* among the 17 top-flight symphonies...
Undaunted, Sarazen bellowed: "I'm not ready to admit defeat...
...Spanish observers who saw them return to Gibraltar after two days at sea made no mention of visible damage. Yet, as usual, the Italians claimed to have hit the Ark Royal's bridge with two big bombs, to have set afire the monster Hood. All the British would admit was loss of the destroyer Escort by torpedoing...
...official daily tallies of shot-down German raiders rose from a half-dozen to a dozen, then to a score. Germany was trying to "soften up" Britain, apparently in preparation for real mass attack, then for invasion. Britain's chin went up & out as she refused to admit "softening...
...public opinion, which last year was unwilling to face the savage reality of war, last week was prepared to admit that it had a decisive, selfish, personal interest in what happened to the British Fleet. In its own way it had come to translate into blunt language what Lord Lothian had said indirectly from the start. And signs were accumulating that the world's greatest problem in statecraft-British and U. S. relations-was approaching a critical phase...