Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though I would have personally chosen another, I must admit that your selection touches the pulse of our economic system. Your statement that much American prosperity "was directly attributable to ... the automobile" is perhaps the truest yet made in estimating our big year of 1955. Those of us who live in the "steel city" feel keenly that the automobile is indirectly a product of our labor, and when that industry is healthy, we are healthy...
...least the Koran decrees that a man can take [four] wives only if he treats them equally." But the Sultan's daughter, who lives in a palace which not only contains the Sultan's two wives but his more than 20 concubines, is willing to admit that full emancipation will not be achieved overnight. "The older generation," she says, "is not going to do anything. It's the children who must revolutionize Morocco...
...wouldn't run around the way some princes do, and I told him that if he did, he'd lose a mighty fine girl." The Prince solemnly promised that he would be an exemplary husband. After the family learned the happy news, even brother Kell had to admit that his prospective brother-in-law was no oddball. "I don't think we can make a sculler out of him," he said. "He's not tall enough. But I hear he's a terrific skin-diver...
...Ramsey has long been an outspoken opponent of divorce, was once looked upon by liberals as a threat to the ecumenical movement. But at last year's Convocation of York, he proved to be in favor of interchurch cooperation, was credited with helping along the successful measure to admit the Church of South India into closer communion with the Anglican Church...
Apparently, Rathbone felt that the time to decide whether Sargent was more than a maker of period pieces has not yet arrived. "While his star appears to be rising again," Rathbone wrote in the exhibition catalogue, "critical opinion is not yet willing ... to admit that he is the artistic peer of his now more securely established American contemporaries-Homer, Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Ryder and Whistler...