Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admit it is universal for Soviet Russians to use doubletalk when speaking to a foreigner (who is recognized by his clothes before he even opens his mouth). But in my 30 years of life in Russia, I never found enthusiasm for the regime to be anything but doubletalk, to be employed on formal occasions; the universal real attitude towards the authorities was one of reluctant submission...
...A.F.L. was too busy fending off Big Bill's savage jurisdictional attacks on rival unions. He revised the carpenters' constitution to admit any member with the remotest connection with a hammer and nails, e.g., ship caulkers, floor layers, furniture workers, and millwrights. He waded happily into the carpenters' ancient fight with metal workers over who should install metal trimming. When the Building Trades Council suspended the carpenters, Hutcheson roared: "The Brotherhood is not looking for a fight, but if they have to fight ... the sooner it is started the sooner it will be over." It ended...
...arguments, the Oxonians had to admit that their worthy opponents were worthier than they had expected ("They're extraordinarily good, you know," said Rees-Mogg). The judges-former Governor William S. Flynn of Rhode Island, Justice Harold Williams of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, and Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Harvard Law School-apparently agreed. Their unanimous decision: victory for Norfolk -the first U.S. team to defeat the gentlemen from Oxford...
...year or so, left her in his will "five hundred pounds as some compensation of the injury." The illegitimate son she bore him turned out to be the sad apple of his eye. The sage of the minuet had sired a clodhopper. But Chesterfield was the last to admit...
...Agriculture Department is the first to admit that it needs better crop-reporting. The board makes its guess from reports by its 60 field representatives and 20,000 volunteer farmer-reporters, who send in information on acreage planted, soil moisture, weevils and weather. Before the war, the board sent out roving teams to cover the cotton belt and doublecheck estimates. They were equipped with "crop meters," i.e., gadgets attached to car speedometers which recorded the front footage of cotton planted. But in the past few years, the board's budget has been raised only slightly (to $2.8 million), while...