Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...must be close to 80, but he will not admit it. Only his blue eyes tip off his age: occasionally they betray him by watering. But Norman Clyde still has a face that is unlined and a handclasp that can crumple knuckles. Square and solid, he still can carry a 120-lb pack by the hour with his bent-knee shuffle. And he still knows more than any other man alive about the wilds and wonders of the Sierra Nevada, the giant wall of granite that links Nevada and California with some of the most rugged peaks on the continent...
Cynically fostering an army purge are many of South Korea's 3,700 youthful lieutenant colonels and colonels, who make $63 monthly or less, and would like to see some vacancies at the top-where, as some of them candidly admit, the opportunities for graft are better. Posturing heroically on street corners, they charge the generals with everything from taking bribes from draft evaders to delivering the vote of entire ROK army divisions to the Rhee ticket in last March's fraudulent elections. Counters U.S. General Carter B. Magruder, who as U.N. commander is responsible for South Korea...
...regarded as interference in its internal affairs. Bolivia's government somehow delayed extending an invitation to Dorticós so long that it was too late for him to accept. Peru shifted Dorticós' arrival to a distant military airfield and barred welcomers. Chile refused to admit him. Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt sent his Foreign Minister to intercept the Cuban President in Buenos Aires and persuade him to stay away because his trip "was not convenient." Dorticós rejoined that he would visit Caracas unless Betancourt publicly barred him. Betancourt then...
Ironically, Vanderbilt is one of the South's most integrated campuses. A Southern liberal, Chancellor Branscomb persuaded his conservative board of trust to admit Negroes in 1953, and he is personally sympathetic to the sit-in strikers' goals. But "civil disobedience'' is something else again. Branscomb firmly believes that whites and Negroes must equally obey the law-or face race riots. And at the height of the sit-in tension, Lawson told city officials: "The law has been a gimmick to manipulate the Negro...
...wife's sake but for her own. "He will stay with me, you know. Not because he loves me more but because he is tired. Besides, he has no money of his own." Faced with the awful truth, the husband is at least man enough to admit that he is not a man. In disgust, the mistress turns him out, then gasps in horror as she realizes that she will never see him again. Suddenly he opens the door. "My darling!" she sobs, "You have come back to me!" But he has only come back for his briefcase...