Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the real oldtimors had to admit it beat everything they had ever seen. For color, girls and noise there had never been any equal. The All-Ivy League weekend was the world's greatest blast--it made the Dartmouth Winter Carnival look like James Madison Junior High on its annual field...
...journalists, robbed of any honest sensationalism, fabricated a little of their own under headlines twisted to an "Oatis refuses to admit torture" type. The reporters forgot that Oatis admitted violating a Czech law and had long portrayed him as another Mindzenty. For so many months the press had assumed Oatis' innocence that when the facts did not justify their speculation, they were unable to reverse themselves. Of course, the American public relishes reports of Communist cruelty and injustice. But in this case, by lording sensation over truth, the free press has sacrificed its principles...
There is a thing you have forgotten, the willful violation of the teacher's oath law. Two admit they were members of the Communist party and when they took the teacher's oath, they had no intention of upholding it, and this is a wilful and deliberate violation. And how do you know whether or not they are still members of the Communist party? Because they told you they got out of it nine years...
When the Planned Parenthood Com mittee applied for council membership in behalf of its Mothers' Health Centers, council directors turned the committee down, candidly explained that the Catholic agencies objected. But last week, after a long and bitter debate, an opposition slate of directors pledged to admit Planned Parenthood was elected 317 to 259. The 53 Catholic agencies duly announced that they will resign if Planned Parenthood is actually admitted. Said a Catholic spokesman: "The primary reason for the existence and a substantial part of the program of the Planned Parenthood group are to promote the gravely immoral practice...
...storefront church labored harder than Deacon Grimes. In the South he had tomcatted and boozed around until one day, at 21, he had seen the light. Now, a big, morose factory worker, he thundered God's word at his wife & children without cease. What he would not admit was that he served the Lord only by his words. He could never forgive his wife Elizabeth for having borne an illegitimate child before their marriage. And he hated the child, John, in a most un-Christian way, though the boy desperately wanted his affection...