Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...punish the culprits. A communiqué itemized their sins; they added up to "fractionalism." Marty was fired from the party secretariat, but kept his job in the politburo. Tillon was fired from the politburo, but remained on the central committee. Both were given a month to recant and confess in approved Communist style. Only the fact that Old Heroes Marty and Tillon still have many followers inside the party saved them from immediate disgrace and expulsion. Said the party communiqué: the central committee is determined "to do everything to help comrades in error to correct their mistakes...
...Religion of Marxists: "Religion, of course, they consider an ideology and an opiate. In all this there is much with which Hromadka believes Christians would have to agree ... We must confess that [religion] has often been an opiate, that it has carried along much of superstition and legend, that it has been made a tool of exploitation...
...Hershey's All Saints' Episcopal Church invoked God's blessings for the President of the U.S. and "Thy servant Robert." Asked again if he hoped to have won over any delegates, Taft said: "I do not expect converts to come up to the altar and confess today...
...Deprived of their comfortable evenings in such ill-famed establishments as Le Sphinx and Le Poulailler, Frenchmen sneered as the once systematically supervised prostitutes took to the streets and alleys of Paris to ply their trade. The venereal disease rate soared and even Marthe was forced to confess that her noble experiment had failed. However, she said, all the difficulties were the fault of legislators who had failed to provide social security for prostitutes. Bitter Parisians merely sneered the louder...
Anabel Handy's Late completes the Advocate's compelement of stories, Miss Handy deals in a man's reminiscence of a childhood incident; and while she obviously wants this incident to express a symbolic decision, I must confess that I can't see it. I thing that the author's involved verbiage has obscured the point, at least...