Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have a heart-of-America symbolism that is apt and obvious: far more than any Midwestern rival, the papers emphasize reporting and editorials that attempt to tell how the world is spinning-and what time it is. Says earnest, globe-trotting John Cowles, publisher of the Minneapolis papers: "I admit it-we have something approaching a sense of mission...
With that, Mvusi began taking liberal arts courses, history and literature for the most part. His interest in art developed on its own, since South African art has been stamped out, and standard fine arts courses do not exist in Negro universities. "Even in white universities they don't admit non-Europeans in fine arts courses," Mvusi points...
...Russia is still largely a bogeyman. If Peking's current statistics are questionable, its basic economic assumptions are even more so. That cottage industry can ever play a major role in transforming China into a modern industrial state is doubtful. As Peking has begun to admit, many of the mud-brick blast furnaces are vastly wasteful of coal and are located too far from major industrial centers to be of much value. And the rosy agricultural future that Mao promises does not take into account the possibility of repeated bad harvests ("Weather no longer counts in China...
...rigid. Adenauer's government recently felt called upon to deny formally that any of its ministers had ever been willing to negotiate with the East Germans. To this, the East Germans coyly asked: What happened June 11, 1955 and Oct. 20, 1956? Adenauer's government had to admit last week that on those dates Adenauer's Finance Minister (now Justice Minister) Fritz Schaffer had indeed crossed over into East Berlin to talk with an East German minister and the Russian ambassador. Schaffer did it on his own, said Adenauer, and had not been deterred because "his conscience...
...great many of the more liberal Club members are also eager to dispose of some of the stuffer rules of the Club game. Abortive movements have recently been started in some Clubs to admit ladies more frequently, and a few members feel that the Clubs would enjoy a friendlier place in the College if classmates could be brought in for meals. At least, they say, older guests should be invited more often. But these movements generally run into polite but firm opposition from the graduates, who remember a day when the Clubs were close-knit little bands of intimate friends...