Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said courtly Jules Jeanneney, 81, last President of the French Senate: "The Marshal failed us. ... The armistice was an irreparable error. . . . But let us admit we had no other choice." (Suddenly the Marshal heard quite well, bowed warmly to the witness...
When it finally dawned on them that D.D.T. was the root of the trouble,* the worried patient relaxed and was able to go to work. Unlike the doomed fly, his health gradually returned. But even now, a year later, he is still not willing to admit that he is in the pink...
Yugoslav officials admit mistakes. But they argue that British and U.S. observers do not take sufficient account of the fact that, while Yugoslavia was occupied, there were those who fought the Germans and those who collaborated. Until the collaborators are dealt with, these officials say, it is impossible to institute a democracy as the West knows...
...nasty strike in Philadelphia. A union official was killed and a partner in the firm of Hunt's Motor Freight and Food Products Transport was tried for the murder and acquitted. Thereafter, the A.F. of L. transport workers refused to negotiate with Hunt's; refused to admit any Hunt employes into the union. Without union labor, Hunt's was effectively boycotted, finally went out of business...
...Zhukov showed them every courtesy in Berlin, visited (and decorated) General Eisenhower at Frankfurt five days later. Some of the U.S. officials got the impression that a grievous lack of administrative personnel and preparation, rather than a deliberate secretiveness, accounted at least in part for the Soviet reluctance to admit U.S. and British representatives to the Russian area...