Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remember for how many times. Eventually he served in Persia in 1914-17 as a sergeant-major of esquadron 4, same regiment, quartered in Hamadan, Persia. . . . When Budenny eventually was heard from, he was a head of a regular cavalry outfit, nominally of course: you admit that Reds eventually had to send him to the school at the age of 46 years, and we back in Russia knew very well that the real boss in Budenny's outfit was a certain Dalmatoff, formerly an old Russian colonel. As commanding officer, Budenny managed to get badly bruised up by Whites...
Miss Thompson's startling discovery was hailed next day by Washington Pundit Arthur Krock. Writing from his New York Times office, on the seventh floor of Washington's ivory-colored Albee Building, Mr. Krock hinted further that the Government dared not admit the wonderful truth lest it get no more money for relief funds. Likewise, the Republicans ignored the truth for fear of conceding that Roosevelt had actually produced recovery...
...good offices" in persuading Russia and Hungary to be nice-not to invade King Carol Il's domain. For these good offices, the Führer "hoped" that Rumania would: 1) demobilize half her Army; 2) give the Nazis a monopoly on oil and grain exports; 3) admit a pro-Nazi Iron Guard into the Rumanian Cabinet to "safeguard German interests...
...story of the Hore-Belisha dismissal was still last week a well-guarded secret. The cause of the storm over Minister Burgin was crystal clear. Ever since the Prime Minister appointed Mr. Burgin Supply Minister last April Laborite M. P.s have been gunning for him. They were willing to admit that during World War I Leslie Burgin was a fine Army intelligence officer who richly deserved his special citations. Since he collects languages as Franklin Roosevelt collects stamps, and speaks every European tongue and several Asiatic ones, Captain Burgin could interview war prisoners the Allies brought in on any front...
...still the hordes came on, and at week's end even the Finns had to admit the Russians had several footholds on the coastal front. Obvious aim was to penetrate inland and cut the vital lines of communication from Helsinki to Viipuri, then sweep around behind the Finns' last-ditch defenses in the Mannerheim Line. Many a Finn was constrained to admit that a moderately honorable peace would be preferable to gradual strangulation by Joseph Stalin's Molasseskrieg...