Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...saltiest sailor aboard, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, chose this moment to admit that he had never been properly initiated. He confessed that in 1898, when he first crossed the line as a midshipman on the U.S.S. Oregon, he had bought off the shellbacks with a keg of beer - a custom then permitted on naval vessels...
...years ago, after 31 months in the Army, Jackie signed up as a shortstop for the barnstorming Kansas City Monarchs. It was a Negro club featuring old and reliable Pitcher "Satchel" Paige, who would have been a big leaguer once, had the big leagues been willing to admit Negroes sooner. The grubby life with the Monarchs was a shock to college-bred Jackie. The Monarchs traveled around in an old bus, often for two or three days at a time (the league stretches from Kansas City to Newark) without a bath, a bed, or a hot meal, and then crawled...
...deny being a Communist fellow traveler, I am, in fact, at least tinged with red. I am an enemy of the Vatican political state, not the Roman Catholic religion; I may be gullible, in spite of spending my life in journalism; I am no Communist fellow traveler, but admit gladly to being a fellow traveler of the Carpenter of Nazareth and proponent of the social implications of His Gospel -a dangerous admission in these witch-hunting days, when Christianity and Marxism are confused by ignorant or prejudiced Americans, unhappily including the editors of TIME...
...about the fact that she is no drawing-board designer, that she couldn't draw a curve to save her neck. If it comes to that, most of the other top designers are no better with a pencil than Sophie. "But," as she says, "they won't admit it. We all design in just about the same...
...could probably elect the Democrat. A few days before the election they . . . told me that the Republican buying-price was a dollar and a half a vote, and that if we could raise the ante to a dollar seventy-five we would be successful. It is hard to admit that I was as gullible as I was. But I gave them the money, and the Democrat was beaten worse than any candidate in years. Shortly thereafter, however, he blossomed out in a new Buick automobile...