Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said: "Young man, you've been seen going into their headquarters. You've been giving the Brotherhood military training. Come clean with me." The soft-spoken major denied the accusations, though, as he later admitted, "I had a paper in my wallet which would have proven my guilt." At the first chance, the young officer excused himself, went to the toilet, flushed the paper away, and returned. Unable to prove anything against the major, Hady told him, "You're a young fool," but he finally...
...heroine of this book is afflicted with a common ailment: growing up. Her ailment is aggravated by a special complication : South Africa and the drab gold-mining town from which she comes. The pains of adolescence are intensified by "the slow corrosive guilt...which, admitted or denied, is in all white South Africans," and by the fact that while the mine yields gold, the town offers only shale. Groping toward maturity, Helen Shaw supplies her own clinical study of her troubles in the first person singular...
Though most of them face serious life problems arising from bereavement, failure at work or school, or difficulties with kin or colleagues, the problems are magnified in their minds. Sometimes it is an unreasonable fear that drives them to distraction; sometimes an unjustified feeling of guilt or inadequacy...
...world beyond the Reich. And this fact in turn is perhaps his greatest strength at home. For of the many things that Germans have Adenauer to thank for, the greatest is his achievement in restoring Germany to the world's.councils. After years of non-fraternization, denazification, war guilt and moral outlawry, Germans were deeply moved to hear that their Federal Chancellor was consulted by Winston Churchill, honored and deferred to by the President...
...after stealing $430 from a parked truck, Horace C. Turner was pursued and captured by the truck's owner and several bystanders, admitted his guilt, but suddenly discovered that one of the bystanders had made off with the loot...