Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ashamed to confess it," Barker said. "I think it's too much, too glorious, but the answer is we couldn't resist...
...reject any atavistic responsibility for my ancestors' repugnant acts. I am sorry for slavery like I am sorry for the Holocaust (no family connections there). I must confess feeling closer to the experience of slavery because I have long known that this is part of my national and personal history, whereas the Holocaust was very foreign to this Southerner who knew no Jews until age 12. But I will not bear this burden; I was born with original sin in general, not the sin of slavery in particular. Some descendants of slaves may insist upon internalizing the pain of slavery...
Only those registered as Republicans in New Hampshire are eligible to vote. On a campus where some students confess they have never met anyone who legally resides in the Granite State, it is not surprising to see a low level of student involvement in this year's campaigns...
...believe 100 percent of what I write. There are times when I get so caught up in the excitement of a particular argument that I take it too far out of sheer intellectual zeal, without realizing what I have done. But there are other times, I must also confess, when I deliberately state an argument in more extreme terms than my actual beliefs may warrant...
...know how many people in our nation would confess such contemplations, which offend the elemental mandates of our cultural beliefs and our religions. No matter how severely some among us may condemn the parents of the poor, it has been an axiom of faith in the U.S. that once a child is born, all condemnations are to be set aside. If we now have chosen to betray this faith, what consequences will this have for our collective spirit, for our soul as a society...