Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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However, neither Yovicsin nor anybody else around Cambridge is about to admit that any team can prepare for the little gambling quarterback. Against the Crusaders, Ravenel completed eight passes out of 18 attempts for 90 yards and a touchdown, but his real talent was in directing the Crimson's running attack to a total of 262 yards...
...against Kennedy or Johnson, but against Khrushchev. He never mentions Kennedy or Johnson by name. Only rarely did he refer to the Democratic ticket even in directly. At a press conference in Columbus, he said that it was "most improper" to raise the religion issue. "I absolutely refuse to admit that my three Roman Catholic grandsons will be debarred from the presidency on those grounds, or, for that matter, my two Episcopalian grandsons...
...virulent case of pennant fever. But Murtaugh just kept his Pirates playing percentage baseball, told newsmen to find stirring quotes elsewhere ("I'm no good at answering questions"), and declined to say a single word about the pennant. One frustrated reporter finally asked Murtaugh if he would admit Easter would fall on Sunday next year. "I dunno," said Pittsburgh's Danny Murtaugh, shifting his cud. "There was a fella once who changed the date of Thanksgiving...
...couple of chapters while she tells how he achieved his present wretchedness. The measure of how feeble are the author's efforts is that the major shockers concern a servant girl who becomes pregnant, a woman who bears a Mongolian idiot, and a young man who will not admit that he is a homosexual. Novelist Metalious shows herself to be a woman of taste in telling this last episode; her custom is to describe heterosexual claspings in considerable detail, but after the smoldering line, "Come here, David," the young invert's carrying-on is swathed in silence...
...cars in dealers' hands, enough to last for about 56 days at the current rate of sales and 125,000 more cars than were on hand last year. To move them, automakers are offering bonuses to dealers as high as $250 for each sale, but many automen candidly admit that much of the steam was stolen from the cleanup drive by similar bonus sales held last spring...