Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before 150 G.O.P. fund raisers from nine Midwestern states, Humphrey tried to straighten some of the hair he had frizzed during the budget flap last winter, when he remarked that continued big budgets would bring on a hair-curling depression. Said he: "I think you might just as well admit that there is a wave of criticism, a wave of disappointment, a wave of complaint that is going all over the country-here in Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, in a lot of places. It is more prevalent with just the kind of people who are right here, the kind of. people...
...influences of a liberal education. He found some professors who seemed to know a lot about many different things, and who had warm and humble personalities to boot. If this were the result of liberal training, then there seemed to be some sense to it. But Vag had to admit to himself that there were as many rotten, obnoxious individuals at college as at home...
...with the same triumphant question. "Vag," he would say. "Assume you are about to die, and only the most delicate operation can save you. Would you choose a doctor who knew his science thoroughly, or one could quote Plato to you?" And put in these terms Vag had to admit he would choose the lopsidedly scientific doctor...
Johnson said that he and most of the Harvard Council members are in favor of a rules revision to allow organizations which so desire to admit Radcliffe members on an equal basis with Harvard. "It is only legalizing a procedure which goes on," Johnson said...
...tinted women, estimated at one out of three v. one out of ten in 1952, are not reluctant to admit it-except for the greying, who color their hair to look younger. They consider themselves truly liberated. In the days when Cinemactress Jean Harlow showed women a thing or two about the man-catching qualities of platinum blonde hair, the business of hair-dyeing was a secretive thing reserved largely for showfolk. Women retired to back rooms to brew their metallic dyes; slinking out came eye-fluttering hussies. But nowadays, as one TV personality reports, "it's the same...