Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most cheering events for the people of these United States would be a general acknowledgment of ignorance and a confession of sin by our leaders. Is there no one who has the grace to humbly confess his part in the events which led us to this place of trouble...
...last three years 200,000 people gave me name cards declaring their willingness to join Christ. I do not say I persuaded them. We have 60 volunteer workers to follow up those who confess, but it is not enough...
...bound to confess that to some extent we are an odd body . . . for instance, what about the Dean of Canterbury? The toast is 'at home and overseas'-I never know which the Dean of Canterbury is, at home or overseas. Dare I say that when he is at home I wish he was overseas, and still more profoundly when he is overseas I wish he was at home...
...Blanton, whip-tongued editor of a Scott County paper, was known as the "polecat editor," Jack always preferred a gentler and humbler approach. The most celebrated demonstration of its effectiveness was the 1942 Monroe County drought. In a 60-pt. streamer on Page One, Editor Blanton proclaimed: LORD, WE CONFESS OUR SINS, WE ASK FOR FORGIVENESS, WE PRAY FOR RAIN. An hour after the paper hit Main Street, the rains came. Recalls Blanton: "Trouble was, it rained so much the farmers couldn't harvest the crops. The farmers still come to me when we have droughts. 'But please...
...Cook and his men did turn up their share of marvels. Europeans were amazed when they read such things as Cook's anthropological notes on Tahiti: "One amusement or custom ... I must mention, though I confess I do not expect to be believed . . . More than one half of the better sort of the inhabitants have entered into a resolution of enjoying free liberty in love . . . The men will very readily offer the young women to strangers, even their own daughters, and think it very strange if you refuse them ..." The news of islands where sex and sin seemed...