Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example, Saint-Cyr, the West Point of France, would be obliged to admit German, Benelux and Italian cadets, and could no longer have sole say over its own curriculum. Nor would France any longer be able to make, buy or sell arms as it sees fit. There was also a serious question whether France could freely exchange its overseas officers-fighting in Indo-China or tied down in colonial trouble spots-with its own officers in the European Army, without five nations' concurrence. These difficulties had led De Gaulle to demand a looser federation, something like an old-fashioned...
...building has not enough facilities for contagious patients. The private rooms have no running water, and there is, only one toilet a floor. The staff has no access to student's previous records which are in the Hygiene building two miles away, and doors and elevators that won't admit beds are becoming a nuisance...
...beyond treatment of current cases, say Dubos & wife. It is a way of life: "Cleanliness of body and habits, a room of one's own where sunlight and fresh air enter freely, physical and mental rest . . . diets ... to meet the unperverted demands of the body." The authors admit that there is nothing new in this prescription. But. they say, the world needs a new spirit of evangelism to spread this gospel and make it work. "It will be," they suggest, "the enviable task of the future to reconcile the glamour of modern life with the ancestral wisdom...
...understand, however dimly, the motives that make loyal Communists confess crimes they did not commit. Since the trials of Cardinal Mindszenty and Robert A. Voge-ler, the Western world has also come to realize that relentless and refined pressure on body & mind can make the firmest anti-Communist admit to outlandish offenses. What still remains puzzling is why Communist trials, so carefully stage-managed as spectacles, can be so blatantly inept as to strain the credulity of a high-school boy. Did the Communists really expect the Czechoslovaks to believe the absurd conspiracies confessed so abjectly at the recent Slansky...
...days, they say, a Texan once wandered into the Met, and remarked with uneasy awe: "Doggone, it sure would hold a lot of hay." Whatever the Texan might feel now about Francis Taylor's big attic, he would probably have to admit that what it holds...