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Word: confessionally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were gaping contradictions in the police testimony. Major Harold Snyman, head of the five-man interrogating team, testified that Biko, when shown several statements of "confession" written by friends, had "jumped up like a man possessed, grabbed a chair and threw it at me." Snyman then gave a vivid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Inquest into a Curious Death | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

Looking for Mr. Goodbar is very much an American movie. Opening with a montage of black-and-white stills of Theresa, the film relies heavily on crisp quips to furnish some badly needed levity to the story, and Brooks is not averse to using quick cutting from scene to scene...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Unwrapping Mr. Goodbar | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

Apart from Lord Weary's Castle, a collection of tortuous, difficult poems that won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1947, Lowell's books were devoted to a ceaseless self-scrutiny. The glimpses of his private world could be harrowing. "I hear/ my ill-spirit sob in each blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Self-Examined Life | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

The morale of the Pathet Lao forces has been hurt by the failing Laotian economy. Some government troops are so desperately poor that they have sold their uniforms for money to buy food. In an implicit confession of weakness, the Pathet Lao leaders have sought outside help from what is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDOCHINA: Insurgents: A New-Old Battle | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

Without Ray's confession, the case against him was strong but circumstantial. There was no doubt he had bought the rifle and binoculars left near the scene of the crime; he had rejected a room in the rooming house that did not have a view of the Lorraine before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE QUESTION OF CONSPIRACY | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

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