Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...journalist new to the Capitol, he was once approached in a Senate hallway by Lyndon B. Johnson, then the majority leader: "He stared at me down that long nose of his and said, 'I've never known a reporter without a character flaw. What's yours?' " Sidey did not confess then, but he is willing to come clean now: "I've always been more interested in interior America than in events overseas. If I were given a choice between assignments in Omaha and Paris, I'd choose Omaha." Omaha, not to mention Sidey's readers and colleagues, may be inclined...
...have, 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...
...hour weeks so everybody can catch his breath," says Dole. "He's wanted to make history with his first 100 days. Well, maybe after the 100 days he can relax and we can get some steady leadership" from the White House. Something else Clinton must learn is to confess the truth when even a child can see it: against the evidence, the President recently denied that his stimulus plan was ever a centerpiece of his economic program, much as he once erroneously denied that his pledge of tax relief for the middle class was the linchpin of the scheme...
...senior employees were asked last week what they thought of him, all three men sang his praises but insisted on anonymity, for fear that Mike might be upset that they had said anything at all -- and then had second second thoughts, calling Ovitz to confess pre- emptively that they had talked to a reporter...
Many Harvard professors say the practice has no scientific basis, and is little but superstition, but some Harvard students sheepishly confess they often take a peek at their horoscopes, and even occasionally find truth there...