Word: confessionally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Election Fears. These were the reverberations from the confession of Elizabeth Ray, 33, a comely if shopworn blonde, that she had been employed as a $14,000-a-year congressional committee clerk by Wayne Hays; the Ohio Democrat, for the sole purpose of being one of his sexual playmates. Hays...
The sin may not have been all that original in the U.S. Congress, but the public confession certainly was. After two days of lying about it, Ohio Democrat Wayne Hays stood in an unusually hushed House chamber and admitted that he had carried on an affair with Elizabeth Ray, 33...
Later the same day, the instructor found another test paper with wording identical to the one that bore the footnoted confession. The hunt was on. Soon 117 papers with suspiciously similar phrasing and matching misspellings were discovered. The Honor Committee, composed of 88 cadets from the top two classes, formed...
Soon it was the turn of Miami homicide detectives not to believe their ears. They rushed north last October to hear the confession, then returned south seeking authority to bring Rodriguez back to Miami. Only then did Florida authorities discover an astonishing obstacle: because of a five-month loophole in...
The apology by Professor Davis was something of value, too. Confession is good for the soul. This letter expresses the hope that he will be forgiven by those against whom he has transgressed and that all may learn from this sorrowful situation that racism has no place in higher education...