Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home-grown jury was chosen with the utmost care. One talesman was summarily rejected (by the prosecution) because he thought "no Dodger can do wrong''; another was peremptorily waved away (by the defense) because he had the temerity to admit in open court that he had never seen the Dodgers play. Headlined the New York Daily News: DUROCHER TO BE TRIED BY JURY OF HIS JEERS...
...Washington clubwoman: ". . . I'm sorry this happened both for [Crystal's] sake and for ours. But I expect the girls up there thought she was an exotic and interesting person-the way you would think of someone from a foreign country. . . . When other fraternities decide to [admit Negroes] we probably will too. We don't try to be different." Her advice to the Vermont chapter: they should have told Crystal to form a Negro sorority. At Vermont, this would have to be a one-woman club...
...does, however, admit that the squad is ready for the contest but wishes he knew a little more about Yale's ability in gather, points. Three men who had to sit out the last meet because of injuries will be ready for action against the bulldogs tomorrow. They are Doug Pirnie, Ted Withington, and Cliff Wharton...
...failures of Trotsky's Stalin is that he cannot admit one staring fact: Stalin won what Trotsky somewhat grandly calls "the grand polemic," because a majority of the Communist Party sensed instinctively that the nature of Stalin embodied, far more than the more brilliant Trotsky, something deep in the nature of Communism itself...
Agents or middlemen . . . romp in circles, like porpoises on the high seas, around the big sharks. . . . They are, in a sense, the most honest of the lot, for they frankly admit that they would just as soon sell cars or pyramids...