Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nicholas testified: "I admit I sent two of my children to a colored school because they are dark, and I didn't want to hurt them." When Nicholas desperately produced two tickets to a 1955 rugby game to prove that he sat in the European section, the magistrate looked at the stubs, barked: "Actually, you used Gate Five? Would you deny that the gate you used was the one used to admit colored and Indians?" "III don't know," stammered Nicholas, cringing...
...readers south of the border have, I must admit, been so favorable. Peru's President Manuel Odria sometimes thought TIME'S frank reporting unkind, but he never did anything worse in reprisal than to nickname our Lima correspondent, Thomas A. Loayza, "Mal Tiempo." In Argentina, Juan Perón found TIME'S views of his dictatorship so infuriating that he arrested our correspondents, banned the magazine for six years (1947-53). But that did not keep TIME out of the country. Our circulation in Uruguay, across the River Plate, trebled. Argentines crossed the river to smuggle TIME...
...transfer of Seiberling stock. On both counts Lamb was wrong, and SEC forced him to make retractions. To play up his skill as a manager, Lamb bragged that first-quarter earnings for his Air-Way Industries hit 31? per share, but again SEC stepped in, forced him to admit publicly that the figures were before taxes and had not been audited...
...initiating these changes, Dulles has shown himself willing to admit that an enlightened foreign policy must consider the fears and uncertainties and jealousies of the so-called "lesser" nations, and cannot sacrifice economic assistance to military overconcentration. This new attitude should become the basis of American policy for the future. It combats the real Soviet threat which is currently economic rather than military...
...very rich" to take the country away from the common man. This is big; this is cold, naked power wielded by mindless giants who make life-and-death decisions without moral or intellectual regard for the consequences. Success no longer matters, because to achieve success today is to admit one's moral bankruptcy. And men no longer really make the grade: they are hand-picked by corporations who tell them what they want-and get it, or else...