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Word: admitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Action. Executives of some of the smaller companies admit that a desire to get a piece of the huge job prompted them to submit unusually attractive bids. Charles M. Pigott, president of Pacific Car and Foundry Co., says: "It's a more complex job than we anticipated. We don't expect to make any money." Other companies claim to be satisfied with their profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steel: Midgets Beat Giants | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...right, let's admit sex is great [July 11]! But when it hits you in the eye with belted monotony on the screen, in books, on the stage under the pretentious guise of the "new morality" (i.e., dressed-up smut) I find it quite tiresome. There's nothing funnier than a good dirty joke, and nothing flatter than a poor one. Seems to me, the plethora of poor ones going the rounds these days is all one hears. Who's laughing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 25, 1969 | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...dozens of other ranking European statesmen. Together, they constitute a sort of European shadow government. They had come to Brussels in an attempt to spur Common Market bureaucrats and the respective ministers of the Six (Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and West Germany) to start immediate negotiations to admit Britain to the economic community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Seeking Unity--Slowly | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...unprejudiced eye can now see that Rosa Bonheur's celebrated horses do indeed rollick with inimitable vigor, a battle scene by Meissonier can be moving, a lush nude dancer by Theodore Chasseriau genuinely sensual. Many people have always felt this, but now they can admit it without seeming hopelessly unsophisticated. Taken together and seen thus, argues Director Anthony Clark, the period was the "proudest century of French painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Rediscovered Riches | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...fourth demand, dealing with the freshman class being representative of the high school population, President Gallagher pointed to the budget cut in Albany. He explained during the question and answer period that although the 100 Scholars program is being implemented this fall (a program to admit the top 100 students from every high school of N.Y.C. into the City University system), his major concern was quality, "I want more than a quantity program," he said...

Author: By Paul R. Simms, | Title: What Was Behind the CCNY Takeover? | 7/22/1969 | See Source »

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