Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team of inmates who are supposed to give the guards a tune-up game. Naturally, he recruits every psychopath in the slammer for his squad. Naturally, the game itself turns out to be more pier brawl than football-cruel but perhaps funnier than nice people like to admit. Naturally, when it looks as if the prisoners will win, Reynolds is asked to-and almost does-throw the game. Finally, he turns around and wins it when he realizes what a victory will do for his fellow cons' self-esteem and dignity. Robert Aldrich, the hell-for-leather director...
...have discovered, at considerable cost, the wisdom of consulting more widely and assessing his future major moves more carefully. In dealing with Nixon, Ford could perhaps have tried harder to get a greater concession of wrongdoing. But there is little likelihood that Nixon could ever bring himself to admit full guilt, though that guilt has been adequately documented by the House Judiciary Committee. Even if indicted, he probably would have fought fiercely to seek an acquittal rather than plea-bargain, Agnew-style. Indeed, Illinois Republican Congressman John Anderson offered a cutting observation last week. "Why were we ever stupid enough...
...Voellger, 34, of Seattle, the mother of seven children: "Today a woman is almost considered an intellectual dropout if she's a mother and a housewife and enjoys it." The 36.5 million women now working constitute 46% of the American work force, and a growing number of them admit that they do not want to assume the burden of motherhood...
That Harvard cannot offer salaries competitive with other area scientific centers and hospitals which receive larger government subsidy is something administrators here will admit readily. In late-May, officials made a clear concession to the rocketing wages of Boston-area clerical workers--they had gone up an estimated 5.5 per cent over the previous six months--by ordering a flat $300 pay-hike for the next year for every non-union employee of the University. Organizers claimed the raise was an attempt to buy them off, but administrators maintained that the decision was motivated by a fair examination...
JUDGING from several newspaper articles, there seems to be a misunderstanding in regard to the proposed plan of private instruction for young women in Cambridge. The opinion prevails that a way has been found to admit women to Harvard College. Nothing of the kind has been done. Provisions have been made to enable young women to be instructed by Harvard professors and if in time the number of such students be comes large enough, a second university may be built up at the side of Harvard which will give young women the same college advantages that young men have...