Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...option to take one out of the four courses pass-fail would leave students more time to do independent work or go out for extra-curricular activities, they claim. And, though they admit some students would take advantage of" the option, they feel that most would honestly benefit from...
...women filed out of the District of Columbia U.S. Courthouse's overheated Courtroom 21 to begin their deliberations on Bobby Baker's fate. Baker firmly denied the accusations embodied in his nine-count federal indictment for larceny, tax evasion and fraud. He did, however, admit to one piece of chicanery. Returning to the witness stand before the defense rested its case, the former Senate Democratic secretary once again invoked Old Friend Lyndon Johnson, related that the then majority leader had scolded him in 1960 for his extracurricular activities. L.B.J., Baker testified, "did not think that I should practice...
...Este as a possible site for April's hemispheric summit meeting. Next week he departs to become publisher of Long Island's daily Newsday. Though Lyndon Johnson has peevishly taken to telling visitors that the capital fairly teems with equally bright young men, he would have to admit that his protege's departure will leave a ragged hole in his inner circle...
...talking about? Or does everyone know about it already? Well, I suppose it's all right to dismiss it summarily, since everyone knows that among the jeunesse doree this sort of thing goes on all the time, so why bother describing it. But certainly you're not going to admit that jet set "secrets and morals" don't go beyond occasional, normal, heterosexual, humdrum, friendly encounters? Be bored with something more exciting, please...
...heroine (as we learn from her "New Angles on Life notebook") is mildly inspired by a sermon, but finds her salvation in a brass bed with an old friend who happened to be in church that morning. It's good to dismiss it all like that, but don't admit the symbolism--unless it's at the artistic level, of course. For a while you actually seemed to take it seriously, and that should never be done. Unless you're writing about your own conversion which, if treated properly, is fashionable nowadays...