Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canadians are well aware that by geography, politics and the facts of trade Canada is part of the Western Hemisphere's family of nations. And yet, like the prewar U.S. isolationists, they hate to admit it. That was why suggestions that Canada sign the hemispheric defense treaty drawn up at Petropolis (see LATIN AMERICA) were so embarrassing. The thought of joining with the Pan American Union set off a rash of Canadian rationalization...
Call Me Mister. For the first year, at least, Marlboro plans to admit only 100 students, 60% of them ex-G.I.s, with New England solidly represented. Faculty members will have no ranks or titles; just plain "Mister" will do. (Hendricks picked up that idea at the American University in Biarritz, where he taught English to G.I.s in World War II.) The college will have no rules except those voted at a "town meeting" of faculty and students...
...prefer brunettes (a happy choice, since only 8% of U.S. women are natural blondes) and they think- although they are at least half responsible for it-that women get kissed and petted too much before marriage. The average U.S. woman is plumper than she would like to admit-she is 5 ft. 4 in. tall and weighs 132 Ibs. She is more interested in having a good-tempered husband than a faithful one, although she wishes he were more romantic. She believes three children constitute the ideal family, wants no babies until the second year of marriage...
...manifest violation of civil rights. He had protested to Prime Minister Mackenzie King against the attempt to "starve the Japs out of the camp," and had followed with a ringing speech: "Let these Canadians be treated as Canadians by Canadians. Let the Government have the courage to admit a wrong and right...
...easier to talk about the Apocalypse and to consult occult books than to admit that one is an abettor of disorder. . . . The Apocalypse is indulged as a fad now in order to avoid undertaking, in the face of the sickness of Europe, measures for public wellbeing. . . . Europe's bad conscience lends itself to playing up the Apocalypse. This is not what the Apocalypse is for . . .1 have no more reason to deny than I have to admit that we may have entered into those convulsions which, according to the Scriptures, precede the end of the intermediary period. What...