Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anyone can oppose this amendment unless he wishes to admit frankly that this is a program for deficit spending...
...breakneck race to deliver postwar toys in time for Christmas, the $200 million toy industry was falling behind. By last week manufacturers were ready to admit that this will be another year of cardboard and wood makeshifts: there will be few, if any, dolls of prewar quality, few rubber balls that really bounce, few electric trains, velocipedes, roller skates, bicycles and other wheeled and metal toys...
Sirs: Why shouldn't all of us admit our respective parts in the Pearl Harbor disaster? It was common knowledge that "we can knock out the Jap Navy in two weeks," and that complacent attitude, plus that of the must-not-offenders, plus those who fought even inadequate preparedness, gave the Japs their opportunity...
Management's answer was the usual one: wages cannot go up without increasing costs. After that, either prices must go up or the profit system goes out the window Said Henry Ford II: "It's difficult to admit that a company like Ford must be closed because labor insists on selfish policies when everyone's economic future is at stake...
About 80% of the damaged ships were hit by Japanese suicide planes. The figures highlighted two points about the Kamikazes: 1) they were much more effective than Navy brass hats had dared to admit ("only 2% effective" was Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher's airy summation); and 2) they might have turned the Okinawa battle, if they had been better organized...