Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shame on TIME for devoting so much precious space to capitalist puffery. We have to admit, however, we enjoyed the profile of Gussie Busch, "the original Peck's Bad Boy" and his fermented empire...
Plenty of Rope. Grant is first to admit that no two men are alike, even in "I-3ness." But the studies to date show that an I-2 or I-3 is likely to get into trouble: "He is relatively immature. And he's imperturbable. He doesn't care what others think of him, and before long the others lock him up. He doesn't care even then. An I-4 in civilian life doesn't have too much trouble. He gets sore at the boss, swears at him and quits, and is all right again...
Washington does not admit that the U.S. has financed Gehlen's activities (the preferred phrase is that he enjoys a "favorable relationship" with U.S. intelligence agencies). Büro Gehlen's headquarters, a clump of houses surrounded by barbed wire, is south of Munich and not far from Dachau. Outside the main offices the Stars & Stripes fly alongside the flag of West Germany. Gehlen himself stays out of sight. He is married and has four children; he loves fast cars and still has a student's fascination for tricky paraphernalia, obsolete codes and invisible inks. The only...
...Birmingham, two women who declared that they had been admitted by mail to the University of Alabama and then turned down when authorities found that they were Negroes won the first court decision against Jim Crow in the state's educational system. The women, ruled Federal Judge Harlan H. Grooms, "were denied admission to the university solely on account of their race and color." Henceforth, in accordance with the 14th Amendment, the university will have to admit qualified Negroes...
...first is that, almost unanimously-left and right, conservative and fellow traveler-French opinion does not admit that it has anything to be ashamed of in North Africa. Items...