Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admit that all the House is in confusion," said McCormack. "I can see that most, but not all-but most of your side is in confusion...
Said Michener: "I admit I am confused...
Writing in This Week, Michelle Farmer, 18, daughter of Silent Cinesiren Gloria Swanson (see CINEMA), explained that she had learned a lot about the opposite sex from her multimarried mama, but was up against some fierce competition: "I must admit that I had better luck with the older gentlemen who came to call on Mother than with the younger ones who came to pick me up. The younger men stood glued to the floor staring at Mother until it was time...
...PEASANTS OUTCLASS THE MIGHTY U.S.A.," read a headline in Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard last week. The left-wing New Statesman and Nation took another tack, suggested that perhaps the best way to handle the Korean war would be to admit the Chinese Communists to the U.N., remove General MacArthur as U.N. commander in the Far East, and let Britain step in as mediator. U.S. journalists in London also reported that some Britons were getting a certain amount of quiet satisfaction in seeing the mighty "Yanks" get their "come-uppance...
...giving an indecent performance" for the umpteenth time since she took up fandangling, Sally Rand protested, "I'm sorry, I just don't tell my age." (Milwaukee Policewoman Geraldine Sampon, who had found Sally "nude as could be" in a lakefront carnival show, finally got her to admit...