Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...America (1835): "While I was in America, a witness who happened to be called at the Sessions of the county of Chester (state of New York) declared that he did not believe in the existence of God or in the immortality of the soul. The judge refused to admit his evidence on the ground that the witness had destroyed beforehand all the confidence of the court in what he was about to say. The newspapers related the fact without any further comment...
...inability to write on current political threats without beclouding his work with fiery fist-shaking. Following the ancient tragedy, he depicts the horse as a menace, which only a mad girl and Helen realize. The people, confused by the symbol for which it represents, denounce the two women and admit the horse to Troy. MacLeish is one of few poets who has expressed a modern dilemma with such vitality, deftness, and fearlessness. If the task of poetry is to create or recreate life, one hopes that this poet will not be alone in treating the most urgent problems which confront...
...failure to admit to four of his five arrests in his application for naturalization papers (he was granted citizenship...
Despite their anger over the way their U.S. host was peeking into the activities of Americans at U.N., the U.N. high command had to admit that some pretty startling creatures were still being found in the woodwork. The most startling of all was Olga Michka, a slim, cold-eyed blonde of 33. Called before the Senators, she told a strange story of two citizenships. Her parents are both naturalized Americans who were born in Russia. Several years ago, she said, they had split over politics: her mother decided she preferred Soviet Russia, her father and brother maintained their loyalty...
First with the Smear. He got ten weeks in which to confess publicly that he had erred in 1) not ordering the 1944 rising against the Germans, and 2) quarreling with party leaders. Snapped Guingouin: "When are they going to make their auto-criticism and admit their fundamental error?" The party leaders replied by firing him from all executive party jobs. Guingouin fought back with a stream of letters to Communist journals and a confidential memo saying party bureaucrats had "lost all touch with the working masses." He hinted that, if expelled from the party, he might tell...