Word: confession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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April: Pravda will announce that Vyaslav Molotov has been arrested as an "enemy of the state." Enthusiastic spontaneous demonstrations in the Kiev sector will follow. After a suitable period, Molotov will confess to having been in the pay of the German General Staff since he negotiated the non-aggression pact of 1939. He will admit having suggested the Marshall Plan and NATO to Western diplomats. The Chicago Tribune will comment on the fakery of the purge, right above an editorial in which Truman and Acheson are blamed for China's loss. Radcliffe's "Drumbeats and Song" will turn...
Expended Potential. Such allegiance, says Ten Hoor, may be worthy, but "I must confess that I view all this indiscriminate altruism with a jaundiced eye. It does seem to me that these days there are too many leaders and too few followers; too many preachers and too few sinners-self-conscious sinners, that is ... Especially in a democracy, where everyone is more or less free to advocate schemes for the improvement of society, lively and self-confident minds are inclined to expend their intellectual and emotional potential on reform movements. The attention of the reformer is consequently drawn away from...
...Dalmia has come to believe that he is indeed one among men, possessing unusual spiritual qualities. "I shall die peacefully with a smile on my face, "he once wrote, "an enviable state unattainable by ordinary men." And in the style of Indian saintly ones, he is always ready to confess his past misdeeds. Three years ago Dalmia confessed that he had made a big contribution to a government chanty, expecting that he would not therefore "be dragged into the sphere of action of the Income Tax Investigation Commission...
...fact, while he will not outright admit to disproving it, the somewhat close mouthed Birch does confess that he and his researchers have made the theory that convection current beneath the earth's surface are related to the mountains, "highly improbably...
...Agreement. In Los Angeles, after forcing Grocery Clerk George Albert to hand over $1,263.61 in a paper bag, a gunman eyed his loot, remarked: "It don't look like a lot, but you can report it as $10,000. If they catch me, I'll confess to that sum. Are you happy...