Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their side, the British will have to develop a security system that can convince American skeptics that cooperation will not lead to further disasters. They will have to give up much of their independence in weapons development, which they must admit has helped foster for them the continuing illusion of military self-sufficiency. But in the last analysis, the British now seem to have secured what they bargained for all along with their own separate weapons systems and their go-it-alone campaign in Suez: full recognition as a valued and respected participant in an Atlantic alliance...
Ibsen is one of drama's towering master builders. Yet many who admit this dismiss him as excellent for his time, but valuable now only as an admitted period-piece; they cite Doll's House and Ghosts. But they forget that Ibsen in his younger days wrote a sprawling, grandiose work that is timeless: Peer Gynt. And that Ibsen in his maturity wrote a far tighter master-piece whose power is equally timeless: The Master Builder. The HDC choice of a play could not have been better...
...gambler's spirit." uttering a pathetic, near-blasphemous prayer: "O God−if there is a God−let what I am going to do be right . . ." She persists in trying to be a good nun for yet another decade−evidently from a stubborn prideful refusal to admit to herself that she has made a great mistake...
Both Greece and Turkey were admitted to NATO in 1951 in recognition of their growing military strength and importance to Western defense. At NATO's headquarters for "Southeast Land Europe" in Izmir, command functions are today divided equally between Greek, Turkish, and U.S. officers. These NATO commanders, in their multi-uniforms, frankly admit that "this alliance has little hope of accomplishing anything beyond deterrance and defense. Ultimate control over the Straits," they say, "will be crucial for naval and land operations in any future war, and it will take the Russians at least 50 or 60 divisions to break through...
...Stout's resignation. But in spite of all the controversy he had stirred up, Minard Stout had also aroused a good deal of sympathy in Nevada for the dogged kind of courage he constantly displayed under fire. "His enemies," said the Las Vegas Sun, "will admit his accomplishments were almost enough to outweigh his mistakes...