Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actual Turks on shore made a great racket sawing wood, banging with hammers and clunking empty oil drums together. In their enthusiasm, several Turks fell into the river. Although they failed to draw enemy fire from the opposite bank, the Turks, who take soldiering seriously, refused to admit that the byplay had been sport. Said their commander, Captain Nihw Evren: "The men understood that what they did was as important as the actual crossing. They were as agitated as if it had been...
...describes how the Kremlin underestimated the Nazis (counting on the Nazis and the Social Democrats to destroy each other and leave the field, in a year or two, to the Communists), and how Germany's huge Communist Party was itself destroyed. Naturally, Stalin could hardly be expected to admit that his line had been wrong. Scapegoats had to be found...
...times in the past, that search for distinctiveness has led a House to admit mostly one type of student, all Dean's List men or prep school graduates, for example. Once that policy is followed for a single class, the situation can snowball...
Craftsman though he clearly is, Dominguez refuses to admit it. "I stand before my canvas," he begins, shrugging his broad shoulders and rolling his round, bloodshot eyes, "and I pick up the brushes. Then things begin to happen all by themselves. Often I have started painting a woman and finished painting a bull. At the Riviera last summer I started painting sailboats. When the picture was finished I realized I had painted butterflies...
...rate, Weiland hastened to admit yesterday that although all coaches concerned seemed agreeable, the matter was still in the talking stage. It was talked to death once. It may very well be again...