Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman party packed bags, pressed crisp new U.S. bills into the porter's hands, and prepared to motor north to Assisi, Venice and Florence, correspondents cornered him a final time on Salerno and Anzio, got him to admit: "After the fact, a man can always find a better way. The objective was won and that's what counts. I didn't come over here to criticize anybody." So saying, Harry Truman, happy tourist, climbed into his Fiat and roared toward new wonders...
...Russians do need the men in factories and on the farms, and admit it frankly. The Soviet economy is expanding. One British economist has estimated that Russia, which is out to match present U.S. production by 1963, will by then be "the industrial giant of the Eurasian land mass." Russia's manpower need is acute because of the low birth rate during the war, which is just beginning to be felt in the recruiting of 16-year-olds. By 1958 there will be only an estimated 800,000 boys and girls entering Russia's work force...
...another adviser, Harlan P. Hanson '46, Director of Advanced Standing, would probably answer more questions, especially non-academic ones, than Martin. Hanson does admit that each student will require something different from his adviser, and that sometimes, it is wiser just to leave advisees to themselves. As one of his former students told him: "You're one of the best advisers I could have had--you left me alone...
...about such factors as the probable [offshore] location of the carriers, as well as the amount of striking power they could contribute, which is small." But Nate Twining generally has gone down the line for the Navy's budget requests. Of the Army, Burke is the first to admit: "The final payoff is still to the man on the ground. He's going to have to occupy the territory...
...twenty-odd members of the Debate Council would not readily admit to such guilt. Clearly, a judge's decision can, and often does, go to the side that makes the better use of the poorer argument. To this extent, most College debators will laugh at themselves and the system that enables them to make black seem white. They are frank enough, too, to admit that they spend many seemingly useless hours debating for the same reasons condemned...