Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Which, after a trustee-ordered study is considering a proposal to admit about 1,001 women students...
This is "The Sound," from which they have fled their previous apartment downstairs-an apartment where, it seems, they had more rooms and possessions. But only Daughter Zenobia (Meg Foster) acknowledges this; Mother and Father refuse to admit that anything has really changed. Zenobia, too, is the only one who mentions the existence of It-a silent creature, swathed in slings and bandages, who skulks along the floor, in corners and under tables, and is intermittently kicked, whipped, stabbed, slapped and kneed in the groin by both husband and wife, without provocation or comment...
...same attitude informs Vellucci's stand on the more formal recent programs designed to create new housing in the area. He is willing to admit the need for new housing so long as it doesn't upset present social arrangements; he has no interest in a new East Cambridge but a great deal of interest in an improved...
...entered World War II, however, Oppenheimer had become disenchanted with Communism. Called upon to head the Los Alamos atom-bomb laboratory after a brilliant teaching career at Berkeley, he turned to his new assignment with ferocious energy, wasting away to 116 Ibs., but performing what even his enemies admit was a "magnificent" job in producing a workable bomb...
...mold than Mr. Jack. Like Straus, President Molloy joined Macy's training squad right after Harvard ('29), later became boss of Macy's fast-growing California division. Macy's new chairman, Donald Smiley, has the salesman's open manner, yet is first to admit that he is "a nonmerchant." Macy's general attorney and then treasurer before he became vice chairman, Smiley will pursue the company's already sizable expansion program, which has added 13 new stores at a cost of $90 million over the past five years...