Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard scientists confess that they do not always understand the political and bureaucratic machinery behind the agencies that support them. But they add that they are not interested in where the money comes from as much as what it can be used...
...Trevor and refer to their wives in tender moments as "old thing." I would be unhappy to see Jeeves and Bertie Wooster get on a first-name basis. I don't even want to think about the possibility that Jeeves, given the new atmosphere, may feel it necessary to confess tearfully that beneath his awesomely capable exterior he often feels himself lacking in self-esteem...
...Serb leader, Slobodan Milosevic, bears primary responsibility for the coming conflagration, as he does for the war in Bosnia. He is behind the repression visited on the ethnic Albanians by the ruling Serb minority, which has a fondness for torturing confessions out of the rebels. Sitting in his family's small apartment in downtown Pristina, Alban Neziri, 23, coolly, methodically narrates his harrowing story. He says he was arrested last February as a suspected founding member of the K.L.A. and during his 10 months in prison was repeatedly tortured. "At the beginning, they beat me with plastic batons...
Paradise? She laughs at the question. "It's not my place to define paradise for anyone else. That, in one way, is what the new novel is saying. It's not anyone's place to do that. But I'll confess my idea of what paradise would be for me. Nine days of seclusion, total seclusion. No obligations, no demands, nothing but doing anything I wanted, when I wanted." She pauses, perhaps considering the duties she faces in the coming weeks. "I've had four or five days, but never nine. Not yet." Heaven must wait...
GENTLEMEN: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System," you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "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 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...