Word: confess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...able to love, especially as he must accept the taboo which prevents his declaring and consummating his passion for his half-sister Antonia. He harbors a just hatred for the police; while admitting his wrongdoings, he has suffered brutal torture at their hands, when they tried to make him confess to crimes he didn't commit...
...have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic'" exam-period editorial, "Beating the System," you reprinted on Monday; I almost suspect this socalled "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--The Bad Guys--than one of You. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last eleven years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
...EASY TO CONFESS A MISTAKE OR TO SAY THAT ONE IS WRONG, BUT THIS NEWSPAPER FRANKLY SAYS THAT WE HAVE WASTED ELEVEN YEARS OF EFFORT ON BEHALF OF GOVERNOR POWELL. FOR A BRILLIANT MIND, A GOLDEN TONGUE OR A GREAT AMBITION AVAILS A MAN NOTHING, AND NEITHER SERVES THE NATION NOR THE STATE, IF IT IS NOT WEDDED TO GREATNESS OF CHARACTER AND HUMILITY OF SPIRIT. AGAIN WE QUOTE FROM ST. MATTHEW: 'WHAT DOTH IT PROFIT A MAN IF HE SHALL GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD, AND LOSE HIS SOUL...
...told the Parliament. "We are friendly with every country in the world. But we will fight with China. My desire is to avoid it but not to submit as well. If we have to take such a step, we will take it." But, he added, "I am free to confess to this house that my soul reacts against war anywhere. That is the training I received throughout my life, and I cannot easily get rid of it at the age of 72." In typical phraseology, he added: "We will be able to get this aggression vacated, through pressure and other...
...World Council of Churches is a fellowship of churches which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour according to the Holy Scriptures and therefore seek to fulfill together their common calling to the glory of one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit...