Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason for the so-called "situs" bill's failure to clear Adam Clayton Powell's Education and Labor Committee is that it would chiefly benefit the construction trades unions, which have been notoriously reluctant to admit Negroes. In addition, though the bill has more than enough votes for passage, House Democrats have decided to leave it in committee until the Senate acts. Reason: Democrats from conservative districts feel that they lost votes unnecessarily by supporting the 14 (b) repeal bill only to have the Senate filibuster it to death...
Long Blonde Pigtails. Hees was the second Diefenbaker minister to admit he knew Gerda. Though it looked as if the Liberals would nail her as a "security risk" for her various unsavory associations in the past, it seemed less and less likely that she would turn out to be any sort of Mata Hari, as Cardin had darkly suggested. The files of West German intelligence agencies turned up not the slightest shred of evidence that she had worked for the East. And in CBC radio and TV interviews, the heavily mascaraed East German refugee made it abundantly clear that there...
...Quinn, who played in Merrick's Becket and Tchin-Tchin, recalls that when his vocal cords were so sore they were bleeding, Merrick snarled: "As long as you can talk, you go on." Says Quinn: "I may not like the son-of-a-bitch, but I've got to admit that he produces plays well and makes them work." Anthony Newley, who survived two stints with Merrick in Stop the World, I Want to Get Off and The Roar of the Greasepaint! The Smell of the Crowd, mutters grimly: "Hitler didn't die at the end of World...
However, Parry explains that the students at Ibadan did not pose the same revolutionary threat to colonial or "imperialist" regimes that many university students in underdeveloped countries do today. The enrollment was limited to those few whom the facilities could easily accommodate, and "we could not afford to admit hangers-on or professional agitators who would disregard their studies," he explains...
...protect her stock interests." Whatever its technicalities, said Black, Rule 23 (b) "was written to further, not defeat, the ends of justice." Added he: "It has now been practically three years since the complaint was filed, and as yet not one of the defendants has even been compelled to admit or deny the wrongdoings charged. They should...