Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though he had to admit that he never got to Singapore on his recent 36,000 mile trip ("Perhaps I shouldn't tell you, but I believe the schools were rioting"), he whisked his young audience through 20 different lands, dropping offbeat bits of information on the way. The Seychelles, he explained, are "supposed to be the original Garden of Eden. They grow a double-ended coconut there that is supposed to be the original Forbidden Fruit. I'm not surprised. I tasted some. I think Adam was very ill-advised to taste...
Even Beck's enemies admit that he has done well for his Teamsters in the way of wages and fringe benefits, and it is upon that fact that Beck justifies all his behavior. Cries he: "Everything else is incidental to wages, hours and improved working conditions for the Teamsters' membership. What are the men getting for what the men are paying?" What the men are getting does not include a say-so in the affairs of their union. Asks Beck: "Why should truck drivers and bottle washers be allowed to make decisions affecting union policy...
...anyone from his job. But this case certainly necessitates a thorough investigation within the trade union family. His only alternative to prolonged humiliation is a quick resignation. In this free country no man accused of taking $320,000 from funds entrusted to his care in a worthy cause can admit that an explanation might incriminate him, and still retain his trust...
...awesome job of developing an ICBM as a practical weapon of war before the Communists do. He lives with the gnawing awareness of what losing the ICBM race might mean. But General Schriever is a man who has always lived for victory rather than defeat. ("I hate to admit defeat in anything," he once remarked, without flamboyance.) Should he win his destiny-sized race for an operational ICBM, he believes, the U.S. will hold in its hands a vital deterrent to attack-a new peacekeeper of unparalleled power and potential...
After vague rumblings of possible changes at Johns Hopkins, details of a radical new plan were reported last week. As soon as it can raise enough funds for additional faculty and necessary new buildings, the university proposes to: ¶Admit students to the school of medicine after only two years of undergraduate work, during which time they need take no premedical courses except elementary biology and chemistry. ¶ In the first year of medical school, combine premedical subjects with regular college subjects (including the humanities), the latter to be taken at the Johns Hopkins liberal arts campus. ¶1ntroduce anatomy...