Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Control their vanity, confess their lies...
...Forum of Friday, March 24, raised many eyebrows, but in the raising caused an equal number of eyes to be stretched open to a set of very hard foots about the racial situation in the United States. The very existence of such an organization as the Black Muslims, who confess to rapid growth, is in itself demonstrative of several facts. These facts have already received emphatic, if recumbent, expression in the sit-in movements of early 1961. The American Negro resolutely announces that the second half of the 20th century shall witness the completion of his emancipation from inferior status...
...being abused." Prison, he wrote, "has pretty well shown me that I couldn't quite make it as a cloistered monk. I am given cigarettes, hon, and filters at that. But, oh my, how I long for a good old American cigarette . . . And I must confess that I wouldn't be averse to a martini...
...Administration remains to be seen. But Dillon's willingness to answer questions, and his unfailing tact and politeness, not only impressed the Senators but also showed that the precise policies of the Kennedy Administration are still open to discussion. Said Tennessee's Senator Albert Gore: "I must confess I did not approve of your selection. But you may not be as bad a fellow as I thought you were...
...attach ecclesiastical penalties. Two weeks ago, while all three bishops were absent from the island, Father Thomas Maisonet, pastor of San Juan Cathedral, took it on himself to attach a penalty: he warned that Catholics who disobeyed the pastoral letters must not only confess but must also promise, as a condition of absolution, not to support Muñoz' party in the future unless it changed its "anti-Catholic, antiChristian" philosophy, e.g., its opposition to religious instruction in public schools. When Doña Felisa Rincon de Gautier, the mayoress of San Juan, announced that she would defy...