Word: penitente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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So Wallace fired himself into a larger orbit, kindling a Confederate defiance in ethnic and blue-collar Middle America. The later Wallace--chastened and penitent--claimed that the uprising was not about race or hate but rather about states' rights and the forgotten middle class. That was partly true; it...
DIED. GEORGE WALLACE, 79, four-term Alabama Governor, four-time presidential hopeful and political penitent nonpareil who was first elected in 1962 on a platform of segregation forever but later renounced his divisive rhetoric; in Montgomery, Ala. (See NATION)
Though they made no direct comments about the content of discussions with Clinton, critics charge they have abrogated the preacher-penitent privilege, a bond so sacred it can't be broken even by a subpoena. "It would serve Clinton's cause well if it were made public," says the Rev...
[PENITENT] MINAMOTO YOSHITSUNE [DRAMATIC GESTURE] Japanese warrior commits seppuku after being trapped in battle in 1189.
[PENITENT] JIMMY SWAGGART