Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think that the people who are going home are very excited. But unfortunately, some people can't make it home and they're more sad than they'll like to admit. It's a mixed bag," said Michael S. Grossman '86, Matthews Hall proctor...
...would also admit that the journals and books I am throwing away daily are not classics of literature. But what about the panic-stricken undergraduates and research assistants who can't have the New Delhi Economic and Agricultural Policy Journal because I just threw it in the dumpster? I feel so sorry for them...
...refused to accept that; they insisted on calling it an "incident." In part, this may be because the Chinese word for tragedy implies that there must be a villain. As one close Chinese friend pointed out to me, no proud Chinese leader -- indeed, no national leader anywhere -- can ever admit that he is a villain. One top Chinese leader told me that any colleague who humiliated China in the world community by acting contrite did not deserve to be in office. Contrition may be an attractive characteristic in soap-opera stars, but not in leaders of great nations such...
...phenomenon is not new: seven years ago, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley seemed to be leading in California's gubernatorial election -- until the ballots were counted and he lost by less than a point. Some whites were reluctant to admit to pollsters that they planned to vote against a black...
...Koreans refuse to give up the practice. Nearly 82% of those surveyed oppose the save-the-dog campaign. Dogmeat is widely thought to have aphrodisiac powers, which may explain why it is prized by the older generation: 61% of those in their 40s admit to eating it, vs. 28% in their 20s. A health official said the government still discouraged eating dogmeat, but was planning no renewed crackdown...