Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after his execution, Timothy Evans was granted a free pardon by Queen Elizabeth. Said Home Secretary Roy Jenkins to the House of Commons: "This case has no precedent and-I hope and believe-will have no successor." Responded one pleased M.P.: "British justice has shown itself big enough to admit that it can make a mistake...
...Harvard Undergraduate Council last night refused to back a proposal to admit Cliffies into Lamont on a limited basis...
...Your Essay on the pop-psych movement seemed very impressive [Oct. 7]. Your criticism of the "movement" itself is justified, but you've got to admit that their hearts are in the right places. As in anything of this sort, one may go to extremes, such as "psycholumnists" and the folks who think that after a 45-minute psychological program, they are fully capable of couching their neighbors and giving them sound advice as to how they may cope with their personal and social problems...
...badly shook both parties. While the Republicans tried feverishly to anticipate Shapp's strategy, Democratic bigwigs belatedly sought to win the parvenu's allegiance. At a banquet in Harrisburg, ex-Governor David Lawrence, longtime Democratic kingmaker, allowed: "Crow should have been the main dish. I must admit I am eating mine." Shapp thereupon served him another portion. After the dinner, he charged-with some reason-that Lawrence's organization had "stalled" Democratic progress, and demanded-unsuccessfully-that he be given control of the machine...
...south Florida, the man pressing for the trial, the issue is whether the church can tolerate within its ranks a bishop who has denied such fundamental dogmas as the Virgin Birth. "We want him to resign the episcopate," Louttit says. "The common word is unfrocked. I want him to admit that he does not accept the faith...