Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Late last summer Lord Lothian arrived in Washington. Last week even professional Anglophobes were compelled to admit that if the U. S. had not understood the British case-and its meaning to the U. S. -it had not been because Lord Lothian had fallen down as an Ambassador. Pacing his littered study in the Embassy he was saying (between transatlantic phone calls and visits to the State Department) what he had said when he arrived: that the prize for which Hitler was contending was command of the sea. The only difference was that he now said it more forcefully...
...very little contact with France personally, its fall is beginning to mean a threat to the security and interests of the United States. All thinking Americans have now agreed that the nation is in danger; the danger comes from the conquerers of France. Some still are reticent to admit that Germany and the United States cannot live together in peace; the ideal of peace, as President Conant has said, is the dominant and strongest ideal in their minds. Yet, even these people who feel that peace at any price is better than war, have reluctantly come around to thinking that...
...highly respect the work of Editor William Allen White, but after reading about his opinion on swing music and jitterbugging I must admit that he now takes his place among the group known as fogies and joy-killers...
...world's worries in some secret mental compartment, and then enjoying himself to the top of his bent. This quality of survival, of physical toughness, of champagne ebullience, is one key to the big man. Another key is this: no one has ever heard him admit that he cannot walk...
Last week, in an address delivered to the American Scientific Congress in Washington, the sage of Princeton confessed himself baffled. "For the time being," he said, " we have to admit that we do not possess any general theoretical basis for physics which can be regarded as its logical foundation. The field theory, so far, has failed in the molecular sphere...