Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immediate objective of the G.O.P. high command is to capture control of the House and perhaps even of the Senate next year. Realistic GOPsters admit that in this battle the state of the U.S. economy will play an important part-i.e., if the U.S. is in a slump or a state of confusion either because of or in spite of the Truman Administration, the job of winning will be that much easier. Their ultimate objective is, of course, 1948. And there the G.O.P.'s great hope is that for the first time in 16 years...
...vile epithet. He raked New York's ancient political machines from The Bronx to Brooklyn, despaired of his carefully nurtured "good government" if Morris failed at the polls. He even attempted to sell his man to Tom Dewey: "Governor Dewey. I ask you ... do the big thing . . . admit the hopelessness of Goldstein's campaign...
...experienced Hubertus van Mook, the acting Governor, had his ears pinned back by his Government for deigning to confer with Soekarno. The Dutch do not want to lose the richest part of their empire, do not forget that Soekarno was chief Jap puppet in Java, and still hate to admit that Indonesia may have matured politically during the Jap occupation. They told Van Mook that he might deal with other native leaders, but never with Soekarno...
...experts might be too sophisticated to admit it, but in the public eye the Army team is a gang of super-dupermen who dwell high on the west banks of the Hudson, knock the sawdust out of tackling dummies all week, emerge from their caves on Saturday afternoon to scare women, children and mere mortal football foes. There is logic in the notion...
...week's end the problem was still in Attlee's lap. President Truman, not visibly embarrassed, thought Attlee would agree to admit more than 1800 Jews monthly to Palestine...