Word: admitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this low level of debate, a vote was taken. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had his automatic Tory majority and won by a vote of 317 to 254. It was an election year, and Macmillan was going to neither scuttle Lennox-Boyd nor admit to any failure...
Most young Indians are well aware that science and technical graduates now have the best chances for getting reasonably good jobs with a future. But even though India's handful of polytechnic institutes and the science faculties have expanded facilities to admit five times as many students, there are still too few openings. Under terrific pressure, universities have admitted some 800,000 more students this year than in 1949. But the "student indiscipline" that Nehru keeps inveighing against has grown more widespread...
...father snatches the girl from danger, then gives his son enough money to go off and get married somewhere, presumably anywhere, so long as it's away from home. This dubious happy ending suggests an even more dubious moral: Go as far as you like, kids, but admit everything, and then it's possible to get the hell away from those insufferable parents...
...education to avoid desegregation. Last week the doors of Little Rock's embattled Central High School swung open again-for the registering of students for the September reopening ordered last month by a federal court. Some 48 Negro youngsters were registered at Central, including five of the nine admitted before Governor Faubus closed the schools last year. Six more applied for admission to other Little Rock schools where Negroes have never been enrolled before. Elsewhere in the South, there was progress, however cautious: ¶ Florida's first desegregated school will be Miami's Orchard Villa Elementary School...
Every U.S. businessman knows that espionage is as much a part of corporate competition as it is of international intrigue-but few have ever been willing to admit it. Now the businessmen, soothed by a promise of anonymity, have confessed all. To nine Harvard Business School graduate students, who polled 200 key U.S. companies and personally grilled 100 top corporate executives, they gave enough eye-opening information on industrial spying to fill a 77-page report...