Word: confession
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Many of the night watchmen in the Houses have found time during their work to strike up acquaintances with students, though sociability is not formally listed, in the night watchmen's rule book. Some men confess that they have arranged occasional dates over the telephone for girls from other schools who were in desperate need of eligible men for parties. Daniel J. Gannon at Winthrop House, who has been a painter and paperhanger in off-hours, has often taken students who wanted to ears extra money on jobs with him. Frank A. Coughlin at Adams House has specialized in providing...
...Hospital for his final Army physical examination, found himself, without ad vance warning, in a locked room under guard. And a little later, the Marine Corps announced that a board of inquiry had been formed to handle the case of Colonel Frank Schwable, U.S.M.C., the top-ranking American to "confess" to phony Red claims of U.S. germ warfare...
Death at the Altar. But Manolios has been growing into his role. Down from the mountain he comes, to confess the murder and give his life for the village. When the real murderer is exposed, Manolios, reprieved, takes up the cause of the cave-dwelling refugees. When he persuades others to side with the refugees-including a rich man's son who gives the family estates away to them-the priest and elders are wildly incensed...
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...