Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With success he acquired a taste for high life and a distaste for practice. It never seemed to make any difference in his playing. After one hectic binge, he went on to a performance in London's Queens Hall that forced George Bernard Shaw to admit Heifetz' playing had been so infuriatingly perfect that he had spent a sleepless night...
Norstad was the first to admit his plan is "imperfect" as it stands. But he insisted on its merit as a measure toward "putting at least one of the rooms of our house in some order. It would bring the NATO nuclear capability under the collective authority of the alliance, while still respecting the sovereign rights and responsibilities of the separate nuclear powers." As such, he said, "it is worth considering...
Slow & Shallow. The Lamaze method is now taught in a dozen major U.S. cities, and even hospitals where doctors are not Lamaze disciples admit to weaving some of his and Dr. Dick Read's teachings into their obstetrics. Just about all big-city hospitals allow the husbands to be with their wives during labor (a Lamaze precept; it helps to relax the mother), and the most diehard anti-naturalists among obstetricians now recognize the value of prenatal education and exercise...
...hope. If he comes from a great city like Johannesburg or Cape Town, he invariably finds Dar es Salaam unattractive and longs for the music and night life and friendship of home. He is often quick to tell others that he wants to go back, and equally swift to admit to himself that returning is impossible...
...really, I forgot you're rather serious about your art history or some such nonsense yourself, aren't you? (Yes, I suppose there is nothing one can do about it.) There is one chap here--I admit he went to high school, but he seems like such a nice chap--you might rather like talking with him. Knows a bit about it himself. And of course, there are all sorts of Out types you'll have to put up with at the Society; wouldn't know how to hold a sherry if you glued one in their hands...