Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...degrade him, to strip him of human dignity, to deprive him of the will to resist, to make him a pitiable creature mastered by a single desire-at all costs to be free of torment. Any member of this or any other court, to escape such anguish, would admit to almost any crime...
...million), a mission headed by Jean Sainteny has been haggling for trade concessions. Sainteny would also like to open new trade routes into Red China through the North Viet Nam port of Haiphong (which the French, under Geneva's terms, must evacuate next week). The French admit that the negotiations have so far proved "disappointingly unproductive." but they persevere; they are trying so hard for Communist good will that they recently sold the valuable Charbonnages du Tonkin coal mines to the Communists for the mere promise of 1,000,000 tons of coal- to be mined and delivered later...
...Since 1944, there have been so many half truths and slanted accounts of Chiang in our newspapers and columnists' writings that it is refreshing to see your impartial and unbiased account . . . You admit that Chiang had some faults, some bad features in his government; but what puzzles me is that he commanded the respect of the nation, that he fought off the Japanese from...
...underdogs, and we might as well admit it. North Carolina has one of the finest teams in the country," varsity coach Jack Barnaby said yesterday...
...Unified Field Theory. He wanted to unify the field of gravitation with the field of electromagnetism, and thus resolve every cosmic motion into a single set of laws. On three occasions Einstein felt sure he was on the point of grasping the "final truth." But he had to admit last year that he had "not yet found a practical way to confront the theory with experimental evidence," the crucial test for any theory...