Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colorado's Land Board bought newspaper advertisements to admit that it planned to circumvent the law. It was scheming to sell five acres of state-owned land in Mountair, a Denver suburb, to a favored buyer at a fixed price-and it did not want the public to queer the deal by bidding. No one was outraged. For the customer was George Mitchell, 21, a veteran who had been blinded by a Normandy land mine explosion, now hoped to earn a living by building a group of court apartments in his home town. Mitchell could only afford...
Russian justice has a flair for getting people to admit most anything. It got Sensualist Koch to admit shooting at least three victims at each mass execution as an example to his men, asphyxiating 30 people in a gas chamber, sending 2,500 to Maidanek (knowing it was a death camp), personally executing more than 5,000 men, women & children in three years...
...compromising democrat against the implacable Left. And in this conflict the democrat was under severe handicaps. Some of the handicaps were self-imposed. In the democracies, pundits and plain people alike were simply afraid of using the four-letter words of contemporary politics. They refused to recognize or admit that the Left was indeed implacable-as it was in Russia or in the words of Britain's Harold Laski. Like the notion of sex in a previous generation, this thought was too dangerous, or too horrible. It was not so much that the democrats did not have a creed...
...believed that there is no practical problem of human need or welfare which could not be solved in a liberal Democratic Society. He knew that these problems were never finally solved, but he did not admit that his society presented any permanent bar to their solution...
Englishmen admit that dirty weather won at least half the battle for England when Spain went down with the Armada in 1588. Dirty weather - under the guise of Kamikaze, the Divine Wind - saved Japan from defeat in 1274 when Kubla Khan's invasion boats were smashed to flotsam. Dirty weather postponed and al most disrupted World War II's Dday. In peace or war, weather is important, and these days of air travel reliable weather information is more important than ever before...