Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must admit you daunt...
...Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy so angry as he was last week. "You mouth this nonsense in the hope your misguided subjects will thereby be deceived and will continue to remain supine while you lead them and the world into more bloodshed and destruction," he said. "You dare not admit . . . the truth that many thousands of the personnel formerly under your control would choose death to returning to your side. [Only that] stands in the way of an armistice. There is no other issue...
...presence at a public disturbance grounds for an unexpected to come. While there has been no sign that the Administrative Board intends to apply this dictum, the possibility of its doing so is enough to make many a potential witness reluctant to offer his services. By testifying he would admit his presence: since the Administration's attitude is unknown, the safe way is to remain anonymous...
...courses and more with simply appearing to know. This brings them both around to the problem of how to outwit the grader, a problem which is met in one of three ways: 1. By appealing to his vanity as a scholar, which makes it difficult for him to admit that he doesn't know exactly what you are talking about. 2. By appealing to his instincts and sympathies as a gentleman, and 3. By simply confusing him and making him spend an inordinate amount of time proving that you are wrong. This he generally does not have time...
...years it has become almost a truism that a graph is one of the easiest ways to explain a difficult economic or social concept, probably far better than a thousand word essay on the subject. And at the same time, no one, least of all a professor, likes to admit that he doesn't understand a graph, the simplest way to explain anything. The net result of it all is that the "graph for all occasions," embellished with Greek letters and surrounded by a scholarly essay, permits you to "prove" all kinds of things which you know are true...