Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very phrase used to have a pejorative connotation, a suggestion of decline. But a surprising number of people were willing to admit that they belong in the category, and to talk frankly about their lives and those of their friends. We defined middle age as ranging from 40 to 60. Although she barely qualifies, Actress Lauren Bacall, 41, struck the editors as a fitting (and certainly comely) personification of the Command Generation. Widowed, remarried, mother of three, heroine of several comebacks, she has a tested quality of spirit; she is game...
...guarantees create zones of privacy." Such zones, he argued, emanate from the First Amendment's right of association, and the Fourth's guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Justice Black dissented: "I like my privacy as well as the next one, but I am nevertheless compelled to admit that government has a right to invade it unless prohibited by some specific constitutional provision...
Nielsen's chief trial lawyer, George McBurney, conceded that his evidence so far is only circumstantial. "But you've got to admit," he added, "that it's pretty good. And this is just the start...
...second half of the picture the mood changes from tangy to sour. The fun's over, even though the director won't admit it. Society begins to marinate Morgan. People stop oogling the cute little animal and get worried he'll make on the living room...
What will be the problems facing the U.S. with regards to China? There are two basic factions which determine our policy toward China, and they are not on speaking terms, Pye said. There is the clique of economic and political developers who don't really like to admit that they are an integral part of the cold war effort. Then there are the Sinocentric experts who feel that you have to deal directly with Peking, "and that the surrounding countries are merely pygmies...