Word: confessions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little left we don't understand is so fine God's face is staring right out at us." Crunch enough numbers through the right program, the visitor promises, and the purposeful hand of the Creator will emerge for all to see. Roger's response is not encouraging: "I must confess I find your whole idea aesthetically and ethically repulsive. Aesthetically because it describes a God Who lets Himself be intellectually trapped, and ethically because it eliminates faith from religion, it takes away our freedom to believe or doubt. A God you could prove makes the whole thing immensely, oh, uninteresting...
Ronald Reagan, who knows a thing or two about landslides, telephoned from the White House to confess to the triumphant candidate that he was "envious of your margin of victory." By a lopsided 2,166 votes to 799, Actor Clint - Eastwood, 55, had seized city hall in Carmelby-the-Sea (pop. 4,800) with about as much authority as his famous movie detective Dirty Harry uses in seizing bad guys. Incumbent Charlotte Townsend offered her concession about an hour after the polls had closed...
...also, I blush to confess, sadly deficient in the arts of bookbinding, taxidermy, and whale-skinning...
...students at Butler College--the part of Princeton from which the alleged precipitators of the conflict belong, were banned from the dining hall until the students reponsible for the fight confess...
...like all of this belongs in the CUE guide, you'd be quite right, but for some strange reason, they've never printed a thing I've written. As much as I have tried to warn people, my voice has been strangled by a conspiracy of silence. Okay, I confess; I've never been there when they handed the CUE forms...