Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primary campaign, will visit all 99 again before November. A political novice, Bill Murray has previously dipped in politics no farther than the Ames school board, between campaign stops avidly reads such books as Let's Go Into Politics, by onetime Connecticut Governor Raymond E. Baldwin ("Never admit you are losing; if you think you are, don't talk about it"). In rural Iowa, Murray's burnished phrases have less appeal than Loveless' lacerated syntax, and his urbane presence (Loveless loves to refer to him as "the college professor") is a liability, whereas the stocky, rumpled...
Sarbanes said he would favour a policy of inquiring whether home-owners are willing to rent to non-whites and of refusing to list those who admit to discrimination. According to present procedure, Sarbane explained, the Housing Registry does not directly ask landlords whether they discriminate...
...Graduate Secretary stressed that Phillips Brooks House has been working on the problem of the Housing Registry for some time. "I'm unwilling to admit that the Larkin letter precipitated action that otherwise wouldn't have been taken,... but it did focus publicity on it," he said...
...good game for the club cardroom" because "coordination between two partners is very necessary" and "not always easily obtained." Nearly all experts agree that bidding is the really important and difficult part of bridge. And even Goren's bitterest enemies in the cutthroat world of professional bridge admit that he is an alltime great bidder...
Purring contentedly. Eliot is quick to admit that he owes his resurgent health and happiness to his copper-haired second wife,* an attractively plump Yorkshire lass with a creamy complexion, who has reminded more than one Eliot fan of Grishkin with her famous "promise of pneumatic bliss." Says a hard-boiled pal: "He's got this mad thing about love. The way he gazes with sheep's eyes at his wife you'd never guess they'd been married nearly two years and seen each other every day before that for seven." Valerie...