Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million, including all children, teenagers and others who for one reason or another have not formally announced their Protestantism. Brazil alone, says the bishop, has a community of 4,000,000 Protestants. Even by Catholic computation, the figure last year was 4,825,000 for South America, and Catholics admit that the totals are growing by leaps and bounds...
STEMPEL: May I say a few things before we continue? I'll admit I nipped, [but] even riding down in the taxicab, I said to myself just now, I says, ahhh, Dan gave me a damn good break . . . and I came off with $50,000 . . . Unfortunately, I piddled it away through my own stupidity, and my wife's influence, etc. And also the whole thing. Let me tell you the whole thing in gist...
...carrying out a master plan for a balanced company, Litton now has a healthy sales split of 45% military, 55% commercial. Yet Thornton, is the first to admit that "we have a long way to go"-and that the road ahead will be slippery. Though Litton's profits reached $3,700,000 in the last fiscal year, they have yet to live up to the price of his highly touted, fast-rising stock, now selling at 56^-or 26 times earnings. The competition in the industry is growing so rough that competitors still question whether Litton is strong enough...
What seemed to irritate Stempel the most was the occasional insistence that he give a wrong answer. "I was forced to admit that I didn't know where the Taj Mahal is; I was forced to say that Gothic architecture originated in Germany when I know damn well it was France. See, that's the trend now: a big winner will have to flub the easy ones to make the American public look good." Eventually, said Herb, Enright told him, "We've reached a plateau. We need a new face." Herb was forced to lose...
...Negro "inferior" by nature? Argues Dabbs: "The present scientific view is that no significant differences have been established . . . The inferior position of the Negro in the South is due either to God or to us; and as it's doubtful democratic and Christian doctrine for us to admit the responsibility, we are happy to pass...