Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be the first to admit that this could be a dangerous thing," Doherty said, acknowledging the possibility of an infringement on academic freedom...
...argues that the project was a bad one; indeed, his successor in the Plan Organization had promptly renewed the contract with Lilienthal when Ebtehaj resigned after an argument with the Cabinet. Moreover, at the time of Ebtehaj's arrest, no high official seemed prepared to admit responsibility for it; the Minister of Justice was ill and away from his office; the public prosecutor was nowhere to be found; Premier Ali Amini claimed he knew nothing of the case...
...Pegler fired off these charges against his onetime friend Author-Journalist Quentin Reynolds, in a tirade printed in 186 newspapers read by 12 million people. Reynolds retained Manhattan Attorney Louis Nizer to press charges for libel. Five years later, the case finally came to trial. Nizer forced Pegler to admit that he had once written that "it was all right to create fiction about a real person, because if you do it several years after it happens, nobody will know the difference anyhow." During the pretrial examinations, he read Pegler passages from unnamed authors. "Communist line!" roared Pegler. Nizer revealed...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader; although I think I should prefer the world "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system-beating, his Vague Generalities and Artiul Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince CRIMSON-reading graders (there are a few, and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...There has certainly been a lot of talk about these matters in recent months, but it has been a disappointment to me that the proponents of the "top-one-per-cent" policy have so far failed to express their views publicly. While my prejudices are clear enough I freely admit that no one has any right, in the present state of our thinking, to be dogmatic about what is the best long-run policy for the Harvard College. W. J. Bender...