Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...liberals lamented the last-minute torpedoing of the registrar plan, to which they are heavily committed. But Rogers seemed to have the last and most effective word: the referee plan, he said, had been presented as soon as it had been carefully worked out. And all sides had to admit that, at first blush, it was the most reasonable idea anybody had thought...
Maggie Sullavan's difficulty probably existed for a great deal longer than she was willing to admit. "It didn't seem to affect her at home," says her husband, Kenneth Wagg. "Most people take years before they finally tell themselves or a doctor that they're getting deaf," says famed Ear Surgeon Julius Lempert, to whom Maggie went for help early in 1948, By that time she had lost 40% of the hearing in her left ear, 35% of the hearing in her right. "Deafness," says Dr. Lempert, "was the explanation of her often strange behavior...
...last week, all gratitude had drained from Nikita's heart. Growling that in their reports to the meeting the republic's Party Chief Nikolai Belyaev and Premier Dinmukhamed Kunaev had "lacked the courage to admit their shortcomings," Khrushchev announced bluntly that he would do it for them...
...more highly educated, i.e., frequent, moviegoers see some social stigma attached to their pastime. They would be tempted to lie rather than admit how often they go to the movies...
...with his family, Dean Bundy explains that his home will be used to house students in the fall because of the destruction of the Leverett Towers. "We had to make room somewhere," he goes on. "I want you to understand that this is not expansion--we just happened to admit more this year." The next day, Dean Munro comments that he could "put up a few" in his newly-built $125,000 house. Failing to nominate a Democrat, the Democratic Party convention offers the running to Nelson Rockefeller. Rockefeller issues a statement saying "I probably won't run if nominated...