Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French view of the Vietnam war isn't strictly anti-American. They just merely think we're stuck with a bad policy that is a stumbling block to the settlement of other international issues. Although some analysts admit that recent American military sucesses may stave off defeat and produce a stalemate, the majority feel that the Viet-cong is going to win. After their own decade of disastrous fighting in Southeast Asia, such pessimism from the French is understandable. And after seeing American strategists in Paris, copying French battle reports, debriefing vetran officers, and reimplementing French battle plans, most French...
...blackout tried everyone's resources?and few would admit defeat. In stalled elevators and trains, passengers improvised games, including one whose object was to suggest the unlikeliest partners for stalled elevator cars (samples: Jean-Paul Sartre and Norman Vincent Peale; Defense Secretary McNamara and a draft-card burner; any Con Edison executive and any New York housewife). Trapped office workers improvised candles with copies of Book Week and rubber cement...
...Chancellor's ambitious plans for the formierte Gesellschaft face formidable obstacles. Under the German constitution, such fiscal reform would have to be approved by the Lander, then gain a two-thirds majority in the Bundestag. Erhard is the first to admit that his ambitious proposals cannot-and should not-be imposed on the nation by fiat. Instead, he contemplates the use of simple public exhortation to civic responsibility-the Seelenmassage (soul massage) that he has used for years to win over West Germans to his programs for social betterment through economic reforms...
...resigned suddenly in the fall of 1962 to help plan the new university. It occupies a 600 acre tract on the outskirts of Toronto and will admit its first students in August...
...Rules. She could also take punishment like a man. During the Hungarian Revolution, she slipped over the Hungarian border without a visa. She was soon caught and thrown into a cold, grimy jail for seven weeks. By starving and brainwashing her, the Communists tried to force her to admit that she was guilty of espionage. But she never broke. "The old rules," she wrote later, "still held good in this as in any other conflict between human beings. If you fought hard enough, whatever was left of you afterward would not be found stripped of honor...