Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public appearances, showed himself to 1,000,000 people. He displayed wild impatience, touching humility, arrogance, humor, vast learning and vast interests. His remarks touched on public morals, and public manners, stone masonry, weaving, women, Communism and military history. At one point he said: "I am sorry to admit I have never been a Boy Scout." He makes up for that lack by trying to do a good deed a minute...
Thus last week the soldiers of Britain's youngest dominions shot it out with each other for the favors of the beautiful, fabled State of Kashmir lying between them. Neither side was willing to admit that it was war. To a U.N. commission on hand seeking for a way to peace, the Indian government explained over & over again that Kashmir had voluntarily acceded to India, that India's soldiers were there only to clear Kashmir's soil of all enemies so that her 3,000,000 independent citizens could vote peaceably on their own future...
...gets angry if an assistant is half a minute late for an appointment, he will stay in Geneva to get WHO's machinery moving. Said he as the assembly closed: "Our delegates are too damned cooperative - at least for the press. But some day the press will admit the dramatic news values of this international cooperation...
...first woman student was admitted in 1920. C.U. is also the only university in the District of Columbia to admit Negroes on an equal basis with whites...
...Beau was through as a battler-even if he wouldn't admit it. In the locker room after the fight, he muttered through swollen lips: "I'd like one more fight-I'd like to get Williams again." Beau's share of the gate - $13,671- wasn't much to retire on after his manager got through taking...