Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Knock on the Door. At midnight in his barracks-like study in Milan, Father "X" answered some questions about A.C., parried others. Was he the leader of the organization? Father X would neither admit nor deny it. Who was the leader? His deadpan reply: "I don't think it's generally known." Then he said...
...also gives coaches some jittery moments. A coach's most difficult task under the new style, says Boucher, is getting his men to switch quickly from five-man offense to five-man defense the split second that a scoring drive begins to peter out. He is frank to admit: "I'd prefer playing the old game, but I like watching...
...holdings-300,000 bushels of oats, 200,000 bushels of corn, 300,000 pounds of cottonseed oil, 500,000 pounds of lard, more than 1,700,000 pounds of hides. On paper, selling out had cost him about $100,000 in profits. Still, he had to admit that he had "done pretty well . . . over all, I made a profit...
...Christian said "I do not want a soul, give me hope for Christmas." Despite much hemming and hawing Santa Claus had to admit that he had no hope...
...five who finish high school goes to college. But most of the 25,000 U.S. high schools were still acting as if all their kids intended to go to college. Studebaker believes that educational reverence for the "whitecollar myth" produces frustrated and maladjusted citizens. Why not frankly admit that most girls would be housekeepers and most men mechanics, farmers and tradespeople-and train them accordingly...