Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what to do about the energy crisis, leaders of the seven industrial democracies at the Tokyo summit issued a joint pledge to provide more aid to the refugees. President Carter announced that the U.S. would double, to 14,000 a month, the number of Indo-chinese refugees it will admit as permanent immigrants. The United Nations is making plans for an international refugee conference, to be held in Geneva in mid-July. At week's end Secretary of State Cyrus Vance flew to Bali, along with the Foreign Ministers of Japan, Australia and New Zealand, to discuss the refugee...
...rising racial distrust, of crowding and cheating and grade grubbing and sexual anxiety, of pulverizing noise (from your roommate's stereo) and fear of future unemployment (for history and English majors particularly). Some of the causes are familiar. Heavy enrollment, due to simple greed plus the need to admit more women and blacks, sometimes led to tenement-like conditions in dorms originally equipped to handle half as many bodies...
...have bothered him except that tales of excessive punishment kept surfacing from some of his thousands of alumnae. In 1973 the state attorney general's office ordered an investigation, alleging that Roloffs residents were sometimes beaten black and blue, or tied to toilets for days. Roloff refused to admit the inspectors...
...mythic background. John Wayne entered the world on May 26, 1907, as Marion Michael Morrison, the son of an Iowa druggist who migrated to the San Fernando Valley, just east of Los Angeles. Young Michael played football for U.S.C. but retained many more intellectual interests than he liked to admit...
Even anticlerical observers in Rome admit, rather glumly, that John Paul has galvanized Italian Catholics, especially the young. Says Cesare Pagani, Bishop of Città di Castello: "The arrival of Pope Wojtyla has turned our youth upside down. They are taking over the leadership of the young again to advance not only the ecclesiastical but the civil life of our country...