Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mood to be discriminated against. But looking again at the text of EDC, diplomats noted that some of its devices, like the pooling of arms production, might be used to keep the Germans in check. . The vital question remained: Could France's allies persuade it to admit the Germans to NATO? The British thought that Mendès-France, at least, could be made to listen to "reason" because, after finding himself a minority of one against five at Brussels, he would hardly dare isolate his country seven to one in London...
...showing of her newest film, Woman of Rome. She was dressed to show that, with her, first things come first: her silver evening gown had a deep V neck; a fluffy white-fox fur lightly covered her bare shoulders. When the picture was over, nearly everyone had to admit that it was pretty mediocre, but that Gina, in the part of a tough prostitute, had made mediocrity earthily interesting...
Thanks to TIME for publishing French Author-Lecturer Pierre Emmanuel's observations on the trends of American education [Aug. 2]. He has voiced what perhaps many of us teachers are afraid to admit to the public ... Let's face the fact that we are no longer educating in the much-needed liberal sense. In attempting to counteract this situation in my own classroom, I have been met by an almost overwhelming opposition. Even my high-school seniors feel that an injustice is being done them if exposed to broader ideas than those rigidly laid down in the textbook...
Imagination. To most of his staff Prouvost is a mystery man. He sits in small room with peeling wallpaper at table covered with green baize cloth an gives orders to a small, devoted group of deputies. Matchmen freely admit that they use "American methods" to get stories in a country where most journalist operate with a maximum of tact and minimum of imagination. In Rome, at a elevation of new cardinals, a Match photographer disguised himself as a papal servant, ushered visitors to their seat while he quietly snapped pictures of the ceremony with a camera hidden under his robes...
...Bricks. Conscientious Clement Attlee had been frank to admit beforehand that on such a tour "you are often shown only what your hosts want you to see." It was Attlee's hope nonetheless that a look at the cloistered rulers of Communism, who have never seen or been seen by top Westerners, might prove instructive in many ways, provided one could distinguish "eyewash" from cruder reality. Not all Britons were convinced of Clem's ability to make the distinction. A Liberal Party spokesman warned Attlee & Co. that they were treading "on very hot bricks." London's Economist...