Word: confidante
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APPOINTED. STANISLAW DZIWISZ, 66, as Archbishop of Krakow, Poland; by Pope Benedict XVI; in Rome. Pope John Paul II's longtime personal secretary and confidant, Dziwisz will take over the job his former boss held before being elected to the papacy in 1978.
We've grown accustomed to his faces: Hitler the buffoon, Hitler the madman, Hitler the monster. Memoirs of a Confidant introduces us to Hitler the misunderstood idealist whose vision of peace and prosperity was distorted by his gangster lieutenants. The author of this benign nonsense was Otto Wagener, a forgotten...
American officials, however, were already having second thoughts about entering into another partnership with the Soviets. Stalin was, to say the least, a troublesome ally in the occupation of liberated Europe. When news of the successful Alamogordo test reached Potsdam, top American officials began to view the Bomb as a...
“We had some good offensive rhythm,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “Down the stretch we felt confidant guarding [Forte]...we were able to really do a good job.”
Shortly before Viktor Yushchenko announced that Yuliya Tymoshenko was his choice for Prime Minister, Ukraine's President met with his controversial political ally and gave her a simple message. Tymoshenko would have to work hard to overcome the dislike and mistrust many Ukrainians, especially in the Russian-speaking east, feel...