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Word: repentantly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolutionary dream is to come to pass. Last week Red Flag bluntly warned that the Maoists "face the danger of losing the army," and Mao took action. First, he promised that all of the top brass who would come to the army's 40th anniversary party and repent and switch to his full support "would be welcomed." The ploy was a dismal failure: only four of China's 13 regional commanders showed. Then, amid dark hints of a major purge, Mao summoned a meeting of the Politburo in Peking to discuss what to do next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Divided Army | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

...Repent for not supporting the 1964 G.O.P. nomination? Phooey! If Romney and Rockefeller refuse to repent for following their consciences [Dec. 2], congratulations! I shall never understand why political parties expect their members to follow like blind sheep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 16, 1966 | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

Fairy Tale. Polish Communist response was not moderate at all. Snarled the daily Zycie Warszawy: "Who in Poland empowered the Polish bishops to repent and forgive? On whose behalf have they done it? On behalf of the millions murdered in Auschwitz and Maidanek?" Other government papers chimed in, while "students" and "workers" rallied in Lodz, Szczecin and Warsaw to accuse the prelates of meddling in foreign affairs and sabotaging the national interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Beginning of a Dialogue? | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

...into the act. Mephistopheles produces a bouquet of flowers out of the air, and pops a little boy into the oven. Sighs Faustus: "Don't you ever get weary of the same old tricks?" Renata does. Having flogged herself with a whip, she enters a nunnery to repent by singing again on her stomach. The saga ends with the nuns staging an orgy with imaginary demons and Renata condemned to burn at the stake for raising the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Raising the Devil | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...earnestly repent." The churches also encourage troubled souls to seek the counsel of their pastors in private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Confession: Public or Private? | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

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