Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other side of the picture we must admit that Thomas R. Marshall and Wilson pulled together as harmoniously as Eisenhower and Nixon today. So true was Marshall to Wilson, that when Wilson was disabled he refused to take on any of the responsibilities of the presidency which he might constitutionally have assumed. To a similar but not quite the same degree Nixon kept himself in the background while Eisenhower was disabled...
...despite such scattered outbreaks of rebellion, there is no evidence that the integration issue has slowed the industrialization of the South. The chief reason is that industry is the most successful exponent of desegregation in the South, though Southerners are reluctant to admit it. From the steel mills of Birmingham to the docks of New Orleans, the Negro worker, once relegated to menial jobs and Jim Crow unions, is moving steadily across the color bar into skilled jobs and nonsegregated union locals...
...other Jewish leaders were framed up and executed." Asking "what false theories . . . played a part in the violations," the Worker provided its own answer (like Communists all over the world), in a virtual admission of complicity in Stalin's crimes. Said the Worker: "For our part, we frankly admit we were too prone to accept the explanation of why Jewish culture had disappeared in the Soviet Union in the late 1940s...
...solve the problem by quietly packing all Negro pupils off to the ramshackle Lincoln elementary school on the east side of town. For 15 years no one protested. Then came the Supreme Court's historic decision. Negro parents living nearer Webster than Lincoln began demanding that Webster admit their children. The board's answer: it redistricted the whole town, assigned two widely separated Negro neighborhoods to all-Negro Lincoln...
...Kremlin ramparts recently disappeared from the Tretyakov State Art Museum. In a signed three-column article in Sovyetskaya Kultura, Gerasimov publicly confessed some errors of the bad old days: "The cult of the individual has done considerable harm . . . Recollecting certain of my works of the past years I must admit that even in them has been reflected the negative influence." Calling for "a fire of color, powerful, elevated color chords," Gerasimov admitted that "the heritage of impressionism can be used for service to socialist realism." Comradely discipline and social consciousness still rate high. But, said he: "In the inner world...