Word: confess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fairest and most reliable of U.S. papers. He still thinks it is, but by his own standards he did not find it perfect. During the Spanish Civil War the Times bent backward to be neutral and impartial, and Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger is quoted as saying: "I confess to a vast sense of relief that I do not have to take sides. . . ." Ken Stewart's reaction was that Publisher Sulzberger was glad he was not "compelled to choose between right and wrong...
...long time I have been exposed to the various technical and electronic expressions thrown so carelessly about in conversation by our modern Marconis. Once foreign words like "oscillator", "impedance", and "curve" (this last foreign only in the professional sense) are now familiar jargon to me, though I must confess a slight haze still obscures their true meaning. My first contact with these "cathodic terms" produced some strange reactions...
...sergeant was in a spot. It would be dangerous to confess that he lacked power to deal for his country. It would be downright disastrous to try to explain the U.S. State Department to the chief. So the sergeant wrote this protocol...
...confess that I dream of the day when an English statesman shall arise with a heart too large for England, having courage, in the face of his countrymen, to assert of some suggestive policy-'This is good for your trade; this is necessary for your domination; but it will vex a people hard by; it will hurt a people farther off; it will profit nothing to the general humanity; therefore, away with it!-it is not for you or for me.' When a British minister dares to speak so, and when a British public applauds him speaking, then...
...years I have been trying to teach American History students that Johnson was impeached. I must confess I haven't had complete success. Maybe your movie critic was one of my ex-students. At least, the following quotation from the Jan. 11 issue, "Johnson . . . who narrowly escaped impeachment by a righteous Congress," leads to the suspicion that one of my students went East...