Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First of all, you ought to spell the names right. "Cherry herring," "Ferari," and "Mercedez" are somehow less impressive than they might be. And you oughtn't qualify them. After all, you really shouldn't admit that you actually know that people exist who need subtle things like "Leif Ericson (the Norse explorer)" or "(the New Mexican artist) Georgia O'Keefe...
...Muste, who has led antiwar rallies in New York, Washington and Saigon. Though the ladies and the preachers were traveling without clearance from the State Department, a total of 57 Americans-47 of them newsmen-have validated passports to visit the North. So far, Hanoi has agreed to admit only two-Salisbury and Louis Lomax, a Negro TV commentator for KTTV in Los Angeles who was en route to Hanoi last week after stopping in at the State Department for a briefing...
Indeed, despite his tolerance of quixotic causes and idiosyncratic roles, the Man of the Year reflects-more accurately than he might care to admit-many of the mainstream currents in society at large. In 1966, the young American became vociferously skeptical of the Great Society. Though he retains a strong emotional identification with the deprived and spurned citizens of his own and other societies, he recognizes that the civil rights revolution, in which he was an early hero at the barricades, has reached a stage at which his own involvement is no longer vital. And, as a letter...
...contemporary theologians, God is a dimming concept. Assorted Anglican bishops pull him back from "out there" in space and redefine God as ground of being. Some Protestant "Christian atheists" stand ready to write his obituary. Catholics and Protestants alike admit that the traditional proofs for God's existence can be satisfactorily disproved, and earnestly strive for new ways to define and explain his presence...
...appease those who charge that boards are arbitrary in their decisions, now plucking one Peace Corpsman from the Phillipines, now blessing a second's trip to Nigeria, the Commission will ask for Selective Service National Headquarters to establish strict guidelines for deferment. Selective Service officials admit the local boards will follow any formula the national headquarters hands them -- they have too many men to classify to do otherwise -- and that the guidelines have been left vague on the theory that a man unsure of his draft status is a man who may enlist...