Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scraping paint from his artist's palette onto the coded cable. In the car that took him to prison, Abel claims that one bumbling FBI man examined his hollowed-out tie clasp and let a microfilm message fall to the floor unnoticed. "No professional spy wants to admit that he goofed," says an FBI spokesman, dismissing Abel's claims as "complete nonsense...
Basing their order on a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, the judges said that opponents of capital punishment may be excluded only when they admit that they would automatically vote against the death penalty, or that their views might influence their opinion of the defendant's guilt...
...Besides facing a Democratic-controlled Congress, the new Republican President will have to live until at least next summer with budget decisions already made by the Johnson Administration. Moreover, the narrowness of his election victory can hardly be interpreted as a mandate for sweeping economic change. Even his aides admit that Nixon will be forced into the role of an "economic neuter," as one of them puts it, during his first months in office...
...announcement came shortly after the Yale faculty approved with only one dissenting vote a plan to admit 250 freshman women plus 250 upperclass women by transfer. Eventually 1500 women will be admitted in addition to the 4000 male students...
Solzhenitsyn's relentless narrative, moreover, takes place early in Khrushchev's regime, when the Soviet Union was first beginning to admit, and partially mitigate, the crudest of Stalin's repressions. For metaphorically inclined readers, it is justifiable to observe that Oleg Kostoglotov, the author's rough-hewn hero, has his relief from cancer (as Solzhenitsyn himself did) in 1955, precisely when the U.S.S.R. was having its first remission of the disease of mass exile and imprisonment...