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Word: confessionally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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6) An Overwrought Press Conference. With a rambling and disjointed opening statement, Biden failed to reap the benefits of public confession, even though he called himself "stupid" and his actions "a mistake." Part of the problem is that he contradicted himself by also insisting that it was "ludicrous" to attribute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biden's Familiar Quotations | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

That Darke's boss is an unnamed and perhaps female Prime Minister of Britain is not cause for broad winks. Many of the plot turns in the novel may seem improbable and even fanciful, but the feelings expressed by the characters and their sense of time (running up, running down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heartbeats the Child in Time | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

What is there to be heard is a state-of-the-art dance record. Jackson's lyrics combine sometimes glancing felicity ("Your talk is cheap/ You're not a man/ You're throwin' stones/ To hide your hands") with scat-style facility. There is a great singer at work here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Badder They Come | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

Too much can be made of this dissent from official church teaching. Indeed, the Pope can and will find many signs of exceptional vitality in American Catholicism. Attendance at worship services is notably higher in the U.S. than in most other Western countries: 54% in the TIME poll report that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: John Paul's Feisty Flock | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

Shortly after his abduction, Glass reported, he asked his captors for water. One of them replied, "Why water? You death. You no need water." Another taunted him, "You CIA." Later, telling him at gunpoint that if he did not cooperate he would never see his family again, they forced him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon Escape from Beirut | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

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