Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anastasia pretends to be a highly dramatic play, relating the romantic story of an exiled Russian princess, supposedly shot in the Revolution, who suddenly appears in Berlin nine years later. Discovered on the brink of suicide by a White Russian general, Anastasia at first refuses to admit her identity, then suddenly decides to fight for recognition from her grandmother, the Dowager Empress...
...first time in my life, I am really ashamed to admit that I am a Southerner and a Protestant...
...glory and then fell back exhausted, Ed has thrived and grown stronger in the heat of conflict. The battleground of TV is strewn with entertainers who could not quite stay the course-Red Buttons, Wally Cox, George Jessel, Ed Wynn, Ray Bolger, Bing Crosby. Sullivan is the first to admit that any one of these entertainers makes his own talents seem dim indeed. On camera, Ed has been likened to a cigar-store Indian, the Cardiff Giant and a stone-faced monument just off the boat from Easter Island. He moves like a sleepwalker; his smile is that...
...week condemned UNESCO for propagating "adherence to a nebulous world government," the Legion was falling into an error common to many critics of the United Nations and its agencies. As a league of sovereign nations, the U.N. is hardly a world government. True world government--as its proponents readily admit--is a long way off, almost as far away now as it was in the late 1930's when the movement began in this country...
...high-ranking member of the State Department in Washington, who asked that his name be withheld, said the government would not allow the Russians into the country unless the A.A.U. gives a green light. "We cannot admit them now," he said, "because Walsh has not gone through the right channels in arranging the tour." By "right channels," he presumably meant the A.A.U...