Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wandering Homeless. The new bill, similar to one adopted by the House last year, would extend the D.P. program until mid-1951. It would admit 359,000 (instead of 320.000 in McCarran's bill) of the world's homeless. It made eligible 5,000 Italians dislodged from the Trieste area taken over by Yugoslavia, 18,000 members of General Anders' Polish army now in Britain, 10,000 Greeks made homeless by civil war, and some 4,000 White Russians who fled from Communist-held Shanghai to the Philippines. Provision was made to admit 54,744 Germans expelled...
...Offered an opportunity to submit its own evidence and to question Mrs. Knauff, the Department of Justice refused on the ground that it would jeopardize its intelligence sources. With no evidence against Mrs. Knauff, the committee unanimously reported out a bill directing the Attorney General to admit her to the U.S. In due course, she could expect to become a U.S. citizen, thanks to the Post-Dispatch and Crusader Dilliard...
...whole problem can be traced, say Drs. Louis S. London and Frank S. Caprio, to the fact that civilization has developed in man a feeling of shame about sex. The impulse, they say, is as natural and fundamental as hunger: "Everyone is allowed to admit without shame that he feels hungry, but not . . . that he has a craving for sex. Thus nature has planted in the human being an impulse which is continually producing tension...
...time when most universities were bitterly complaining about their dwindling gifts, Harvard's news looked big. In the last quarter of 1949, it reported last week, the university received $2,749,007 in gifts. Fair Harvard had to admit, however, that this was only a fair harvest for 90 days. The previous quarter's total: more than...
...because he saw no hope for the things he believed in. Isn't it just as plausible that, possibly his basic intelligence finally triumphed, he saw he was wrong, but the weakness that led him into all this mess robbed him of guts enough to admit...