Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deputies were being expelled without further fuss, a Senate committee decided to examine Senator Cachin to determine the extent of his "heresy" from patriotism. But the aged Senator, behind closed doors, refused stanchly to renounce the Communist International, so the committee had no choice but to vote unanimously to admit him no more to Luxembourg Palace...
...brutal and overpowering. It forces submission. Only as the first shock wears off and the nasty details fade away does the immensity of the stated truth begin to emerge. That is Miss Hellman's real message of hope. The brittle clearness of reality--the strength to examine life and admit some of its fallacies--is an immense satisfaction...
Left to face the mob was Jailer Gerald Bowen, who decided that the best way to avoid trouble was to admit a few men to the jailhouse and let them see that Hall had told the truth. That was what he did. Still the mob did not disperse. Someone suggested that they get the women out and question them. They rushed to a window and began to hacksaw the bars. Inside, Lillian Blake and her daughter began to pray...
That night the Russians entered the remains of the village of Summa, but the Finns did not admit it until four days later...
...Dean Gulliver was able to say to his first-year class: "Gentlemen, take a good look at the men seated on either side of you-for both of them are Phi Beta Kappas." Yale's School, annually besieged by four times as many applicants as it can admit, can pick & choose...