Word: confess
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...recent article entitled "The Failure of the Mississippi Project" should have been more appropriately entitled, "The Failure of Mississippi". It represented a neat sleight of hand, putting Mississippi on the defensive in lieu of their usual offensive position. I must confess that my vision was blurred as I read about the "misunderstood (and) unjustly accused" state of Mississippi. Have the overt acts of violence committed by the citizens of this state been completely eclipsed by the gross injustices that have been done to Mississippians? Does the fault lie in others who haven't taken the time to inform themselves...
...advance draft of a funeral eulogy: "They needed a good sport in heaven." But the little woman is confused; she figures that Rock is fixing her up with a slimy oilionaire in order to justify an affair of his own. To set her straight, Rock is forced to confess his condition. To set him straight, Doris produces a memorable wifely weirdie. "Promise me," she urges him tenderly, "that you'll never keep anything like that from me again...
Soon after the Worthingtons' bodies surfaced, Gebhardt and young Worthington were arrested as prime suspects, but the evidence was all circumstantial and neither man would confess anything. Then Gebhardt's lawyer, who under Florida law had no way of learning the strength, or weakness, of the case against his client, offered the deal that did the police's work for them. "It was half a loaf or nothing," insisted Prosecutor Richard Gerstein. "In addition, the one who initiated the murder was killing his own parents and would inherit their estate if not convicted of murder." Unless Worthington...
...discussion. Pointing out that Jesus and the Apostles were Jews themselves, Bea argued that the deicide charge had led to pogroms and persecutions. His argument was strongly taken up by U.S. prelates. "I ask, venerable brothers," pleaded Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing, "whether we ought not to confess humbly before the world that Christians too frequently have not shown themselves as faithful to Christ in their relations with their Jewish brothers." Albert Cardinal Meyer of Chicago noted that even St. Thomas Aquinas had written that the Jews of Jesus' time were not formally guilty of deicide, since they...
Some painful, intimate truths are far easier to confess to a chance friend opportunely met than to the closest member of the family. A couple of drinks, a quiet dinner, brandy and cigars before the inn fire-and imperceptibly, from behind the urbanity and wit emerge the true facts of a marriage in shambles or of a mortal sickness. This is exactly the kind of book that Milanese Journalist Luigi Barzini has written to explain to the U.S. the delights and secret deficiencies of his countrymen's manners and morals...