Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last resort, everything depended on the Prime Minister. He, deep down, could not bring himself to admit the independence of Free France. What was more, Mr. Churchill, each time we came into collision on account of the interests for which we were respectively responsible, treated our disagreement as a personal thing. He was hurt by it and grieved . . . This attitude of mind and sentiment, added to the devices of his political tactics, plunged him into fits of anger which gave our relationship some rude shocks. -Charles de Gaulle: The Call to Honor
...always being outvoted in the Diet, the Socialists have tried to outshout and outbrawl their opponents, at times reducing Japan's postwar democracy to a mess. Faced with these outbursts, Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi remained politely placid, meek and smiling. "But Kishi's smile," the Socialists admit with just a trace of admiration, "is like a rose-it has thorns that slash." Last week, faced with the toughest battle in his 21 months in office, Kishi injected some thorny parliamentary shenanigans...
...plan to admit about 80 upperclassmen to Quincy House," said Bullitt. "I will have office hours in University 4 for the next three Fridays, from 2 to 4 p.m., and will interview every sophomore and junior interested in joining our House...
...Creating a new House is an adventurous undertaking," Bullitt continued. "We want active students to participate in building a House worthy of the other seven. We are not interested in people trying to escape from their present House. Quincy will admit only students who accept it on its own merits, not as an escape," he added...
Kronenberger commented that he expects this course to be "smaller than the other one." He intends to admit juniors and seniors "with high marks," and a few graduate students...