Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supposing we consider pig iron. Do you need any?" The interpreter snapped back: "Marshal Konev wishes General Clark to know that the Soviet Union does not need pig iron from anyone." Replied Clark quietly: "All right then, let's take the case of oil." The Russians, who never admit publicly that the Red Army needs oil, agreed to let almost the entire Zistersdorf output go to cover Austria's own needs...
...Army authorities admit there is little they can do about it, but last week they breathed a deep sigh of relief. Under the terms of the French loan, all surplus property in French depots is to be turned over to France within the next three months. Result: a whacking percentage of the current total of 150,000 P.W.s in the Western Base will either be sent back to Germany or placed under French jurisdiction...
...volume library in the Shack (Mrs. Roosevelt and the late President sent some books). Scotts Run small fry and bobby-soxers use the Shack for archery, croquet, ping-pong, dances ("We've got a juke box," boasts Smith, "and we're not ashamed to admit it."). Of the Shack's pool table he says: "It puts us one up on the nearest beer hall." Smith's explanation of his work: "When Christ was on earth He made the blind to see, the lame to walk. We, too, believe in ministering to the people's everyday...
...impatient week of orientation before striking out at specific issues. In three editorials dealing with College, national, and international issues, the Crimson asked Quo Vadimus?, questioned the University on the progress of its General Education plan, the adequacy of its adjustments to veteran influx, and its proclaimed intention to admit more "healthy, normal extrovert" students; it queried the United States on its frantic return to normaley, the United Nations on its Big Four domination and atom bomb fumbling...
...debts during the war, his suspicions grew darker. He raked up a hundred and one details of Corinne's past which now suddenly seemed sinister-her peculiar childhood memories, the time she had insisted on signing her maiden name to an important bill-and then hysterically refused to admit that she had done it. And what had her psychiatrist meant when he talked, in his mysterious jargon, about Corinne's "association with a type of love which was nonutilitarian, not productive of children...