Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ball, regardless of whether there was any play, it drew five-yard penalties from more than one angry team. A powerhouse Pennsylvania team would itself up and then down one afternoon in 1942 trying to catch up with Harlow and the double-shift. Dick always refused to admit, of course, that the shift was designed to pull the opposition offside...
That is why, when seasoned Communists of every nationality say joyfully: "I am going home," they do not mean to their native lands, they mean to Moscow. Thence, if Moscow has not purged them for their sins (and by conversion, they unreservedly admit its right to do so), it will send them forth again in partes infidelium, with renewed clarity of purpose, on their implacable Marxist mission...
...last week when it elected Arthur Horner as its General Secretary. Horner is a Communist. But so well do the miners like him that they elected Horner only three months after they had flatly rejected affiliation with the Communist Party. Even Ernie Bevin and Herbert Morrison were prepared to admit that Horner was an efficient union leader and a nice chap. But, they fretted, "we wish he wasn't a Communist...
...Army does not admit officially that it plans to shoot rockets at the moon. Congress might think it frivolous, though the moon is the handiest gull's-eye for extra-atmospheric target practice. In spite of the Army's reticence, Dr. J. A. Hutcheson, associate director of the Westinghouse Research Laboratories, has heard unofficially that the Army's first moon rocket may be fired in 18 months. This seemed optimistic, considering the difficulties. But last week Dr. Hutcheson was excitedly designing a radio station to be rocketed to the moon, where it would broadcast back to earth...
...that First Army G-2 had the "first inkling" of Rundstedt's Ardennes offensive weeks before it began, but that Bradley's Twelfth Army group did not act on the information. Her conclusion: it was closer to "complete catastrophe . . . than any Allied commander would ever care to admit...