Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...innocent of any knowledge that 6,000,000 Jews and at least 1,000,000 other persons, including many Germans, were dying unspeakable deaths in extermination centers. Abroad, it will only further provoke Germany's critics, who contend that many Germans knew what was happening but refused to admit that they knew...
...Several long moments later, out pops the chick, frisky and unfried. The initial plunge is not exactly Grand Guignol, but it does provide a bit of a shock. A recent spot for American Motors shows a gang of men demolishing a competitor's car with sledge hammers. Who would admit to hating autos? Still, there is a certain undeniable thrill in seeing all that shiny metal crumple...
...pretend to the American people and to himself that because of a dangerous division in the country he is withdrawing to prevent that division from going further. I think that this is what the man consciously believes. I think this is an ingenious cover for his inability to admit that he has made a disastrous mistake...
...hostile or indifferent parents, victims of autism (from the Greek word for self) sense during infancy that their own actions cannot shape their lives. Consequently, they withdraw into a living-death fantasy existence characterized by fear and stony silence-or, at best, by unintelligible animal noises. Unwilling to admit their own existence because they fear that the outside world will destroy them, many autistics refuse to use the pronoun "I" if and when they do speak...
...Hashish, a form of marijuana with an extremely high concentration of the hemp plant resin that gives a stick its kick, is more dangerous than the garden variety of "grass" generally available in the U.S. Pro-marijuana advocates admit this, but argue that legally available marijuana would lessen the appeal of hashish. The A.M.A.-N.R.C. report predicts that any relaxation of antimarijuana laws would encourage an even heavier illegal traffic in hashish, than that at present...