Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jumping Joe" McCarthy? . . . Though I hate him ... I must admit he has finally put some guts-in our Senate . . . by forcing it to condemn him. In his negative way, Joe has done the world more good than the Little Lord Fauntleroys who are horrified...
Arab diplomats went so far as to admit that Mendès-France's reform efforts in North Africa are more promising than intemperate resolutions...
...Britons ever admit to race prejudice. Until 15 years ago, there were very few colored men to be prejudiced against, and they were apt to be either wealthy or titled, or both. There were colored men all through the Oxford and Cambridge colleges, and Negro presidents of the Oxford Union; they were accepted in Mayfair's swankest hotels and clubs. During the war, U.S. Negro soldiers were welcomed with unequaled kindness, even to the extent of fathering some 750 babies...
...vigorous manner in which the U.S. and her allies, after long months of scarcely muffled dissonance, acted in concert. The censure tune's most spirited notes were, in fact, sounded by the representative of Great Britain, which had previously ignored many Red Chinese crimes in its determination to admit the Peking regime...
...British government money has contributed a massive share. But to the Scots, the government in London is still "the English government" and the Englishman a foreigner. Their finances and their fate are inextricably bound up with England, but, if only as a point of pub honor, Scots hate to admit it. They profess grave doubt that their 1707 union with England is a good thing. They bristle at small slights. It rankles that some English ministries call their Scotland representatives "Regional Controllers," that the Festival of Britain brochures chopped off Scotland at the Tweed, that the English refuse to admit...