Word: confessedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Power conflicts (see below), was pleasantly surprised when the job was done and the charter could be read as a whole. Some of them (notably Arthur Vandenberg-see U.S. AT WAR) felt like saying, as Ben Franklin did, after the U.S. Constitution was drafted in 1787: "I confess I do not entirely approve of this constitution at present. ... I consent . . . because I expect no better and because I am not sure it is not the best. . . . It astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does...
...Boswell: "I had to confess that I hadn't even peered at the Management; I gaped in amazement when called on in Procurement; I stumbled through a weak excuse in Man. Cost but when the other 69 men in the Company, a dog and three stray field mice came up to my room that night to seek advice that was too much. However, I'm not narrow minded; the other boys got a laugh out of my anties, so why shouldn't I go through with the show...
...triple political somersault: 1) they announced that the slain demonstrator was not a Communist: 2) most of the Communists at the Colosseum, it was said, were not Party members, but belonged to the Movimento Communista (Communist Movement*); 3) they ordered Unità's Editor Spano to confess that he had acted not as a Party man but as an "individual...
Chack bowed his head, whispered: "Yes, they are at the front indeed. I confess my error...
From the prisoner's dock came a groan. Chack had slumped to the floor. Attendants carried him to a chair. Again he whispered: "I confess my error. . . . Americans have come to comfort me in my cell. . . . Now I understand America in her humane aspect . . . her aspirations not to become the greatest but the best. . . . That is what I would write...