Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best of a bad bargain. After all, a divorce would undoubtedly be harmful to his career. So he sleeps in another room, and punishes her in a thousand small unconscious ways for giving him a guilty conscience, and for keeping him from the woman he cannot, even to himself, admit that he loves-the wife's shapely stepsister (Rhonda Fleming...
...bought it from a student at M.I.T. and it was very inexpensive. I think he made it himself. Put it together from spare parts he found along the road after one of those Harvard-Wellesley marathons. I'll admit I was a trifle worried about inspection since the bicycle does seem a bit unorthodox. But I realize...
Council members admit that their decision is hard on the cheerleaders, but they clearly didn't make it with punishment or hard feelings in mind. They simply believe that a corps of athletes for next year's cheerleading could never be recruited and organized unless this year's UAC gets some experience at the job and goes through the possible embarrassment of breaking the ice on a new system...
Texas' Lyndon Johnson, Senate majority leader, to a Democratic dinner in Nashville, Tenn.: "I will admit that it is sometimes difficult to discover exactly what [Administration] foreign policy is. When the President says one thing, the Vice President says another and the Secretary of State takes a third course, there is little we can do but wait for Jim Hagerty to correct the record...
...stressed that this pressure was present regardless of the ability of the student. "As a consequence," he noted, "the school officials are often occupied with trying to find colleges with admission standards low enough to admit the bottom quarter of the class...