Word: confesser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British Medical Journal, Dr. Kelvin simply passed on one ex-baldhead's "feasible suggestion that the hirsutic embellishment is due to the tablets' improving the circulation of the scalp by their vasodilating [artery-widening] action." He offered no theory of his own. Instead, he added lamely: "I confess that I have not yet personally tried the tablets to cure my own baldness...
...must confess my faith has cost me nothing . . . I have never been hungry. I have not been in prison. I have never had a stone thrown at me . . . I was born in a free land . . . I bow . . . before my colleagues . . . who know the meaning of prison cells, of fetters, of hunger...
...confess honestly that A Fable [his latest novel, TIME, Aug. 2] does not please me. It took nine years to write that book and I once tore up its first version. "Generally I don't read my countrymen's books. In fact, I read little. At my age [56], I prefer to read Flaubert, Balzac, Cervantes' Don Quixote and the Bible . . . The few times I tried to read Truman Capote, I had to give up . . . His literature makes me nervous...
...meeting with Malenkov on the hydrogen bomb-"It is no good putting this thing off." And he was incensed about Guatemala. "The fact is that this was a plain matter of aggression, and one cannot take one line on aggression in Asia and another line in Central America. I confess I was rather shocked at the joy and approval of the American Secretary of State at the success of this putsch . . . There was a principle involved, and that principle was the responsibility of the United Nations. I think it was a mistake in those circumstances to try to hand...
Fierce-mustachioed, fiercely anti-Communist Author Guareschi* does not try to plumb the curious complex of politics, economics and emotional contradictions that causes millions of Italians to pray devoutly to God. confess to their priests, and cast their ballots for Communists. To solve this dilemma in fiction would be to do more than Italy has accomplished in reality. Some of the 25 sketches in this volume, like those in its two predecessors (The Little World of Don Camillo, Don Camillo and His Flock), show the marks of haste; all were written originally for a right-wing humorous weekly that Writer...