Word: confessions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary General Trygve Lie admitted that he did not have much chance to go to the theater these days. "I am sorry to confess," said he, "that this winter I got a television set." When he gets time, between work and watching TV, he loves to see a good baseball game. He is a Dodger...
...must confess to ignorance on the policy of the University toward expression of opinions by professors in their lectures. I am opposed to any censorship or restriction of lecture material; expression of opinions through the usual channels of the press, however, would seem preferable, and any comments of this type in lecture should certainly be made subject to public answer. Frederick R. Coburn...
...nervous, quick-moving, high-strung guy," said one of his close friends later. "He could no more stand calmly and confess than he could fly to the moon." Nevertheless, Vogeler stood almost motionless^ before the Budapest court and, in a voice as monotonous as the drone of a litany, confessed to having plotted against the Red regime...
...major falls in love with a young war widow who becomes helplessly dependent on him. He had hitherto been only a perfunctory Catholic and thus avoids the problem of his sin until the issue is forced by the return of his wife and the anticipation of their customary joint confession. He manages, however, to confess to the priest alone, but will not repent. The major is torn between Catholic judgement, in which he believes, and another morality which will not allow him to hurt either his wife or his mistress. ("I cannot love God at the expense...
...both committed her "sin" and asked pardon for it while at the microphone. Many of her fellow students, she said, were "silly to give testimony" because she couldn't believe they were sincere; then she asked forgiveness for doubting their sincerity. A spare young faculty member rose to confess: "I've led a double life. I've lived a life of defeat ... As you know, I was once a missionary in China . . . After the war started I came back. I told people it was because of the war. But it wasn't . . . It was because...