Word: confesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cause of the negative symbolic value of George Orwell's frightening vision of the future as contained in his novel 1984, a good many professional prophets would just as soon not refer directly to the year of the same name. No bureaucrat, how ever, is ready to confess such fears. A TIME correspondent went last week to that great clearinghouse of U.S. Government statistics, the Office of Management and Budget, and was told, "No body has anything against 1984; 1985 is a good round date, that...
...moments of reflection, the Shah has been known to confess some unease about aspects of his Great Civilization...
...marriage. The Welsh coal miner's son denies any attachment to his fiancée's fortune, unofficially estimated at $2.5 million. "I must say it crossed my mind once in a while," he says, "but that isn't why I am marrying her." He does confess to borrowing $120 from Miss Fitler for her engagement ring. Despite the protests of her financial advisers, Wilson plans to make his fiancee a December bride, then leave for a three-month honeymoon cruise. "I think the age difference is unimportant," said Miss Fitler last week, adding...
...Ford not insisted that Nixon confess his guilt before giving him his pardon? The President replied that he did not think it was proper for him to have made such a demand. But he also made it clear that he felt that Nixon had admitted guilt by the simple fact of accepting the pardon...
...banner, pegging their reasons to the ever changing climate of the gathering storm of controversy. No sooner did the cloud break than they scurried to higher ground, hoping to ride out the struggle. Like all true Christians, when the earth begins to shake, they look skyward for deliverance. They confess a change of heart while still supporting the administration's policies. They well know what is meant when it is said, "as the sun sets on your bloated master's careers, go and seek your graves in history by the torch of the national liberation struggles...