Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clergyman. The committee arbitrates any disagreements the parents could not work out themselves. The parents also appoint a separate "adult ally," another child specialist, with the job of winning the child's confidence and reporting to the committee on problems that the boy or girl might not confess to either mother or father...
Bobby now shows signs of taking it all philosophically. "I must confess I stand in awe of you," he told a meeting of Democratic congressional candidates, who were aware that Lyndon had barred all Cabinet-level officials from the vice-presidential nomination. "You are not members of the Cabinet, and you don't meet regularly with the Cabinet, and therefore you are eligible for Vice President." After he got the word from the President, added Bobby, "I decided to send a little note to Cabinet members in general, saying, 'I'm sorry I took so many nice...
...this was just too high church for the delegates, who resolved to stick with hygienically superior individual Communion glasses, changed all references to the minister as "celebrant" of Holy Communion to "officiant," and refused to encourage private confession. "I was taught that confession is to God," said Florida Layman Edgar Armstrong. "It isn't necessary to confess to anyone else to receive forgiveness if I am truly penitent...
...civil rights plank in its platform. Were these pledges so much campaign stuff, or did we mean it? Were these promises on civil rights but idle words for vote-getting purposes, or were they a covenant meant to be kept? If all this was mere pretense, let us confess the sin of hypocrisy now and vow not to delude the people again...
...criminology professor in charge of the whole mess. The car has begun to shape campus life all over the country. The timing of cultural events depends on available parking. Fraternity house lawns look like drive-in restaurants. On sprawling campuses, where classes may be miles apart, students confess that they occasionally pick courses not for intellectual interest, but for parking proximity. Harvard men drop their Wellesley dates long before the girls are ready to call it a night - the boys have to rush back to Cambridge and park...