Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which had been no veneer, has cracked; thievery in the customs and shipping services, notably on incoming parcels of food and clothing, is now an open scandal. Black-marketeering prospers as it never did during the war's bad years-and it is no longer considered shameful to admit a part...
Asked to disclose some of the details and idiosyncrasies of their private lives, the editors sounded off like everyday American citizens. None admits to being a tightwad, but 40% admit that they are definitely extravagant. Five swear they have green eyes. Three out of four say they dress "so-so," and you seldom catch them out in dinner clothes or tails. Like most big city dwellers, 71% pay rent for their homes, and 40% own cars. The rest live in the suburbs and pursue suburban hobbies on their own time. They go to the movies and theater four times...
...sacks of coal (and another which might have been a doodle by Raphael); Group of Draped Standing Figures (headless) by British Sculptor Henry Moore; a wildly sketched, toad-faced "Conqueror" hoisting a stein of beer, by Mexican José Clemente Orozco. But even Ingres might have been willing to admit the simplicity and tenderness of Sculptor Brancusi's three huddled Infants...
...Admit that Dryden's Virgil...
Asahi, Mainichi and Yomiuri Hochi, the three big Tokyo dailies, all touted the leftward trend. Former militarist editors, now wearing pinkish hues, might privately admit they were hypocrites, but they made a great show of turning coats publicly. General MacArthur's headquarters had summoned the editors last December, the day before the Communists announced their platform, and warned them that they must be fair to new parties. Some editors said they took the warning as a plug for the Communists. And behind their unfamiliar attitude was a feeling that, as an Asahi editor put it, "the new thing...