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Word: admitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After a quiet, all-night chat," the sergeant told reporters, "I think I've talked her out of it." Retorted Maureen: "I don't admit he's talked me out of my views. I don't feel so strongly about them now, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Family Argument | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

Today, after a year of Papagos' government, none of the gallant gentlemen concerned will admit the slightest friction between themselves and Frederika. Peurifoy and Grady have only the highest praise for her. The feud between the Marshal and the Queen, which never got far beyond the cafes of Athens in any case. seems to have been tacitly forgotten by everyone concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The King's Wife | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...with wearing slacks," boomed one judge. "One of the warmest garments is the kilt." Lord Goddard summed up: "Suppose some parents said they thought that in summer a child, in the interests of health, should go to school without clothes-what then? Would the headmistress be obliged to admit the child? The headmistress has the right and power to keep discipline." Spiers was ordered to send Eva back to school-in the correct uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Little Eva's Slacks | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...keeping horses comfortable-and still winning-Willie has become a great favorite among trainers, who prefer to have their horses finish with some breath left. Trainers sometimes complain that Willie seldom seems to be paying attention to their pre-race instructions, but they admit that, on the track, Willie usually follows instructions to the letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winning Half-Pint | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...newspaper reported the "appearance of dangerous looking cracks at the points of greatest strain in Harvard's expensive Stadium." The newspaper said there existed "the suspicion that the immense structure is deemed to a speedier dissolution than the supporters of the officiency of concrete construction will be willing to admit...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: The Classic Gridiron Marks its Golden Jubilee | 10/24/1953 | See Source »

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