Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should refuse it." But, as last Viceroy of British India, as commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, and lately as head of all NATO naval forces in the Mediterranean, Earl Mountbatten has shown himself an able officer. Last week, even Beaverbrook's Sunday Express was forced to admit: "There can be no objection to his naval record...
Saltonstall's backers admit his record is not especially impressive, but say that his most important work was done in the secrecy of the Armed Services Committee, and is therefore off the record. This may be true, but if it is, Saltonstall, as Chairman, must have had a significant role in shaping the Administration's "bigger bang for a buck" policy that brought drastic cuts in U.S. military strength. The prudent economy of the "old Yankee," as Saltonstall is sometimes pictured in his campaign posters, is a little useless when it weakens the nation. Such policies led to significant loss...
...meet and nail down the formula for giving West Germany its sovereignty. Third, the four foreign ministers and representatives of the other five governments of the London conference must work out controls on the German armaments industry. And at week's end the 14 powers must meet to admit West Germany to NATO...
...size and quantity"). But even at his best, he is often fuzzy. There is, says Sir Ernest, "an unwillingness to venture outside a small vocabulary of shapeless bundles of uncertain content-words like position, arise, involve, in connection with, issue, consideration, and factor-a disposition, for instance, to 'admit with regret the position which has arisen in connection with,' rather than to make the effort to tell the reader specifically what is admitted with regret." An official would far sooner say, "With reference to your claim, I have to advise you that before same is dealt with . . ." than...
...University of Jerusalem in the following year. Taubes found that his course on Hegel and Marx was violently controversial in Jerusalem, for a group of remarkably well trained Marxist debaters was in the student body, and the left-wing press soon began to attack him. But Taubes had to admit that the Communists in Israel have a uniquely trained cabal of students who excel both in study and in debate...