Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are many who claim these boors are destined to utter ignominy, and it would be totally unrealistic not to admit this is probably the case. It is not our intention, therefore, to raise any false hopes in these already burdened breasts by a discussion of Globemanship, the miracle ploy of non-peregrinators. We shall merely outline the concept as it has matured...
From another college source comes a less matter-of-fact appraisal. "A number of professors hero are now feverishly trying to obtain positions elsewhere, and many expected to resign in the near future. Department heads and administrators also admit that it is going to be difficult to recruit new members for the faculty in the near future." The same source expresses deep anxiety over the expansion of political control if Governor Herman Talmadge makes good his threat to make public schools "private schools" in order to contravene the Supreme Court's recent anti-segregation decision...
...alpenstocks in his blood. By the bottom of the first page, he has played hooky from his dishwashing job and is off clambering from rock to rock. Seventeen pages later, he has rescued the famous English climber, Captain Winter, and even Rudi's Uncle Franz must admit this is an auspicious beginning; in his 20 years as a professional guide, Franz grumbles, "for me, there has never been a rich Englishman waiting in a crevasse." Before the reader can say "Grüss Gott!" the three of them are belaying their way toward the summit, along with a tepid...
...Bevan brought up the subject of a U.N. seat for Red China. The U.S. might agree to exclude Nationalist China from the Security Council, he suggested helpfully, and admit Red China to the Assembly. And then after a while, Red China could be moved up to the Council. Khrushchev became very angry. China was not a "beggar," he snapped, but a great nation seeking its rights. "A very downright person," Attlee pronounced...
...Nashville, Tenn., the desegregation effort took a reverse twist. Three children of white professors at Fisk University were refused admission to the Pearl elementary school (for Negroes). A Negro city councilman, Alexander Looby, promptly announced that he would file suit to compel the school board to admit them...