Word: confesses
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...long time I have been exposed to the various technical and electronic expressions thrown so carelessly about in conversation by our modern Marconis. Once foreign words like "oscillator", "impedance", and "curve" (this last foreign only in the professional sense) are now familiar jargon to me, though I must confess a slight haze still obscures their true meaning. My first contact with these "cathodic terms" produced some strange reactions...
...sergeant was in a spot. It would be dangerous to confess that he lacked power to deal for his country. It would be downright disastrous to try to explain the U.S. State Department to the chief. So the sergeant wrote this protocol...
...confess that I dream of the day when an English statesman shall arise with a heart too large for England, having courage, in the face of his countrymen, to assert of some suggestive policy-'This is good for your trade; this is necessary for your domination; but it will vex a people hard by; it will hurt a people farther off; it will profit nothing to the general humanity; therefore, away with it!-it is not for you or for me.' When a British minister dares to speak so, and when a British public applauds him speaking, then...
...years I have been trying to teach American History students that Johnson was impeached. I must confess I haven't had complete success. Maybe your movie critic was one of my ex-students. At least, the following quotation from the Jan. 11 issue, "Johnson . . . who narrowly escaped impeachment by a righteous Congress," leads to the suspicion that one of my students went East...
...other job on the program, "Through Different Eyes," is another of the series of flashback-crime affairs, ably narrated by that ace yarn spicler, Frank Craven. It's not too tough to pick the murderer and everybody has a whale of a time making him confess. Craven's presence assures at least one good acting performance, and his supporting cast flounders along without mishap...