Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to confess that I had some doubts about whether other art car owners might be a little far out in left field," Stevenson said, "but once I met them I found out they were normal people...
Baghdad has rushed to confess because Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Saddam's son-in-law and the senior general in charge of his nuclear and biological weapons programs, defected to Jordan on Aug. 8. Saddam knew he couldn't keep Hussein Kamel quiet, so he decided to try to make points with the U.N. by producing a flood of information on the weapons program. The day after Hussein Kamel defected, the chairman of the U.N. special commission on Iraq, Rolf Ekeus, received a letter from Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz summoning him to Baghdad for "new and important revelations...
...produce section continues to divulge its secrets. "Ladies! Americans are getting away from having one kind of lettuce in their salads," Raftery declaims, pointing out the arugula and radicchio. "But I have to confess that if I give these fancy kinds to my kids, they say, 'Maaaa ...'" She segues into a recipe for fried zucchini sticks ("Really nice for company...
...must confess that for a long time I was neither engaged nor even interested in this debate. The activists appeared to me as self-indulgent genealogists, seeking academic credit for a strictly personal interest. Then about a year ago one of my roommates took a course on corridos, or Mexican folk ballads, offered by a visiting professor in the English department. The fascination with which he read his texts for the course, and the enthusiasm with which he described his work struck me deeply. I learned quite a bit in the process as well--the social value and poetic richness...
...movement. But they didn't, and they weren't. The past is deplorable, but it is also irreparable. Are we to go on hating one another forever? The real tragedy would be if blacks took as long to forgive the sins of the past as whites have taken to confess to them. MARK WARNOCK Fort Worth, Texas...