Word: confession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour and a half he spoke in his high-pitched Chekiang accent. He used no prepared text, for he needed none. In all the world no man knew better than Chiang that China's portion was present pain and future hope. He spoke first of the pain: "I confess seven of the government's best divisions were destroyed in Manchuria. They were my best armies-armies that under my command accomplished the revolutionary campaign with glory...
...provincial and pious sort of Irishwoman. When a husband, desperately annoyed with his wife's unwifely reliance on the parish priest, is tempted to tell her "it was Father Ring she should have married," he refrains because he knows that "in time she'd be bound to confess it. There is nothing a good-living woman likes better than to confess her husband's sins." And when this same unfortunate husband is asked by a continental European why respectable Irishmen don't kiss their brides in public, he doubtfully replies that...
...have seen a great deal of Spanish moss in a lot of places . . . and I must confess that some of it is quite beautiful...
Americans found it hard to fathom Pastor Martin Niemöller. After V-E day, the gaunt-faced old U-boat commander had dived repentantly, leaving a bubble of advice to his fellow Germans to confess "the crimes committed during the last twelve years." But last week, as the pastor-commander surfaced again, he seemed to be flying the old German flag. He bade Germans take no further voluntary part in denazification proceedings...
Italy and France this winter, ably explained the situation: "Comrades, you must learn to criticize more and be criticized more. ... I confess that we committed a sin of naivete." The sin was that the Italian Communist Party had Sacrificed effectiveness for size. It was the world's largest outside Russia, but some of its members were incompletely disciplined. Said Togliatti: "We failed to renew the whole Italian social structure. . . . This error . . . forced us on the defensive when we should have been on the offensive. . . . U.S. imperialism today is attempting formation of a Catholic bloc round the Mediterranean [Italy, France...