Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...injecting propaganda into textbooks. In his 60,000-word defense, Chen denied everything-including any motives of personal gain. Said he: "I have no house on earth, and no cash in the bank. If I say I have no property, people won't believe me. If I admit I have, I won't believe myself...
...personal popularity-it was almost indistinguishable from sympathy-that few Presidents had ever achieved. At one time this popular sympathy had been greater (according to Gallup polls) than F.D.R.'s at its highest. The plain people had cottoned to the plain Missourian who seemed so eager to admit his inadequacy, but so humbly trustful of democracy that he was willing to take on burdens and make quick decisions...
...once said that he'd like to see a straight news sheet in New York City-- one carrying all the news but no editorials. In retrospect, the Service News provided a testing ground for that project, and the test wasn't entirely successful. Practically any newspaperman will admit that complete impartiality is unattainable, and a few instances will illustrate that the Service News, occassionally slipped off its tight-rope...
Marshall dates his book 1912-14 and in a prefatory note says carefully: "I understand that the abuses so common thirty years ago no longer exist." But Schooldays reminded its readers that the Government's Fleming Report (TIME, Aug. 7, 1944), urging that public schools admit Judy O'Grady's kids too, was still gathering dust...
Vassar College, at a special night session of the faculty last week, voted to admit men as nonresident students until the school shortage for ex-G.I.s ends. Some 50 promptly applied. The girls at Long Island's Adelphi College voted 3-to-i to admit men, but trustees decided to think the idea over...