Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reported that the 80th Congress' Wiley-Revercomb law was just what Harry Truman had called it-"a pattern of discrimination and intolerance wholly inconsistent with the American sense of justice." The law, the commission declared, was "all but unworkable." Because of its restrictions, only 2,499 had been admitted in the first six months of its operation (it was scheduled to admit 205,000 in two years). The law excluded thousands of Jews and Catholics who fled from postwar pogroms and Communist coups. As written, the law also required job assurance for adolescents and aged grandmothers as well...
...wish to lessen the present tension," Mindszenty had written. "I voluntarily admit that, in principle, I committed the acts in the indictment . . . After 35 days of constant meditation ... I consider that an agreement between church and state is necessary ... I hereby willingly declare-free from pressure, of course-that I am willing to withdraw from the exercise of my duties for a time...
...long political experience," he wrote, "... I readily admit that the post which had now fallen to me [the Prime Ministry] was the one I liked the best. Power, for the sake of lording it over fellow-creatures or adding to personal pomp, is rightly judged base. But power in a national crisis, when a man believes he knows what orders should be given, is a blessing...
Narrow Edge. Acheson handled a barrage of questions with firmness and relaxed good, humor. When a question was too technical, he was quick to admit that the questioner had gone over the narrow edge of his knowledge. A reporter pointed out that some "leading Republican papers" had inferred that "there has been some injury to bipartisan foreign policy." Acheson reddened slightly, and smiled. Was he looking at the injury? Acheson inquired amiably. The newsmen laughed, and the reporter backtracked hastily: "It was their insinuation, not mine." Well, said Acheson, he would do everything he could to keep the most bipartisan...
Arthur Tyndall ("a slender man in a brown jacket and grey trousers") had to admit that he was a little disappointed with the University of Toronto. It seemed to have no real character. Was it nothing but a "facts factory"? Tyndall, who had come to Toronto to be warden of Hart House, wrote to a friend back in New Zealand: "I can't seem to make up my mind about this place. It [presents] a nice intellectual problem...