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...worked in a branch police station, came home, and I confided my thoughts to him. He answered me: 'Mother, we must accuse him.' My son tried to persuade his father to repent, but this bad man not only refused to reform but reprimanded us. After that my son told me: 'Mother, it is useless to spare this bad egg. You should not recognize him as a husband, and I should not recognize him as a father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: New-Style Wife | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...more than the average quota of campus sin. But to Fred Phelps, 21, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), craggy-faced engineering student from Meridian, Miss., John Muir is a weed-grown vineyard. Day after day this spring he has called upon his fellow students to repent. His method: to walk up to groups of boys & girls munching their lunchtime sandwiches in the quadrangle, ask "May I say a few words?" and launch into a talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Repentance In Pasadena | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

Pltirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, joined yesterday in a demand for "a recognition of our own tremendous guilt and a desire to repent" in our foreign policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: America Is Guilty and Must Repent: Sorokin | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

Last week Butterfield & Swire inserted an appeasing ad in Hong Kong's Ta Rung Pao. "This humble company," it read, "regrets its conduct in trying to deceive its passengers. Besides guaranteeing that there will be no similar recurrence, it inserts this notice specially in this newspaper to repent and to apologize to the passengers on that trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: This Humble Company | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...even talked to him and asked him for a job. He got sore and said 'Goddammit' to me. That heated my ears, so I said 'Goddammit to you, also,' and then I shot him. Afterwards I went to the Quiapo church to pray and repent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Hot Ears | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

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