Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Author McLaughlin (A Short Wait Between Trains, The Side of the Angels) again and again pierces his story with small but sharply accurate insights-how a man feels when he pointlessly watches a girl on the street, the horribly impersonal service in a funeral parlor almost too antiseptic to admit the image, "dust to dust." Sex itself ends in the kind of disgust that makes both the scene and the act seem like an aspect of earned punishment...
...must admit that Paul Tillich is the writer of this letter. He thanks...
However, the indictment is not a blanket one: "This does not mean that the universities are complete failures; it merely means that they are far more unsuccessful, according to their own standards, than they are generally willing to admit." In large part, Williams attributes the failure of self-analysis to the limitations of the professorial personality...
...foreign hydraulic turbines and virtually all other equipment is demanded by General Electric, Westinghouse, Allis-Chalmers and other U.S. makers. They contend that U.S. equipment is better and breaks down less, that foreign builders in wartime could not supply parts and services to bomb-damaged U.S. power plants. They admit that they cannot compete with low-wage (about one-third the U.S. average) foreign producers, but plead that the U.S. should support the domestic industry to keep its huge machines and highly skilled men ready for an emergency...
...reasonable and practical settlement," Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory called it, but nobody else in Britain was much cheered by the terms. Heathcoat Amory had to admit that the value of business property for which the Egyptians are to pay $87 million was estimated by Britain at $126 million, and the Egyptians themselves put the value at $107 million...