Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came through the loudspeakers boomed so loudly and with such a passionate rise & fall of voice that it was applauded as if it were an announcement of the final collapse of the Soviet Union. Of the men & women who made purely partisan speeches, Columnist Lippmann wrote: "Never did they admit that they had ever been wrong, less than wise, less than the only true defenders of the faith, or that one trace of humility or magnanimity could be allowed to mitigate their absolute self-righteousness...
Slogging through a week of routine, his desk clogged by 263 bills, Harry Truman waited until after the G.O.P. nomination to give Congress another poke. He denounced its bill to admit only 205,000 displaced persons as "flagrantly discriminatory" against Jews, then signed it with "great reluctance...
Give My Regards to Broadway (20th Century-Fox) is another of those painful cinemoans for the good old days of good old vaudeville. It argues the silly proposition that if you just don't admit that vaudeville is dead...
Albert the Great (Charles Winninger) certainly will not admit it, even though his "temporary job between bookings" (his agent will wire him any day now) with an electrical appliance company in Camden, NJ. lasts for 20 years. He regards his children merely as part of the family juggling act, and drives them every afternoon to practice new song & dance numbers in the suburban garage. When they grow up and decide to live like other people he considers their rebellion against his incredibly singleminded dream (to see Albert the Great & Family in lights again), as subversive as a ripe tomato hurled...
...cabled TIME, offering a future story on truce negotiations, outlining the terms of the still confidential U.S.-Australian proposal. TIME did not print the information. By complaining about its "publication" in TIME, the Dutch not only put every other correspondent in Indonesia on the track of the story-they admitted that somebody was snooping into correspondents' outgoing cablegrams, a violation of confidential communications which many a government practices, but which no polite government likes to admit...