Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressional griddle last week, Jesse Jones had to confess that his vast $400,000,000 synthetic-rubber program, which was to yield the U.S. 400,000 tons of rubber by mid-1943, would not be ready before the end of that year. He could show signed contracts for less than 200,000 tons...
...Shah had to confess that the four-month-old revolution which had restored liberties in Iran was, in some ways, embarrassing. But as an ally of the democracies he put up with it-perhaps not too painfully. Speech was now so free that the Parliament was delaying the transport bill with interminable debate. Individual opinions were so tolerated that swastikas might be seen on many walls, and in the bazaar hawkers sold portraits of Adolf Hitler. And anyone who wanted could listen to his radio and hear Axis propaganda. The Shah confessed himself a frequent listener to Japanese broadcasts...
General Hershey told the committee that it will be necessary to "invade homes quite considerably." The new dragnet will have a smaller mesh. Commenting on past abuses of deferment privileges, General Hershey remarked dryly: "I must confess that we have found a great number of men who have assumed new and heavy responsibilities at home...
...Kent alumnus. And ask him how many times he headed right for the study to "confess" before the list was made public. Ask him if he ever saw the list. Or ever knew anyone who ever saw the list...
Bound to secrecy, he could only confess that Britain lacked tanks, lacked big guns, lacked shipping, lacked manpower to compete with a Germany many times her size...