Word: confession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report she did herself and her old man proud, and I carried the memory of her lovely performance with me to the city (she stayed on to see to her schooling) as well as something the preacher said. At one point in his sermon -- and here I must confess to an annoying lifelong lapse: I have trouble tracking sermons, and I could swear I heard someone say this one was taken from the Book of Macadamia Nuts -- the pastor said, "Now we shall all rise and sing hymn No. 508, Lead On, O Kinky Turtle." At that, my fellow parishioners...
...March bombing in West Berlin of the German-Arab Friendship Society offices, which left nine people injured. The trial provided a bizarre sideshow. Screaming and gesturing wildly from behind a bulletproof screen, Hasi claimed that "voices, sounds and music" were being piped into his cell to make him confess. The frenzied defendant is the brother of Nezar Hindawi, a Jordanian who was convicted in London last month of trying to blow up an El Al airliner, allegedly with Syrian help. After the conviction, Britain broke off diplomatic relations with Syria...
...confess that at first I, too, thought that the government's decision was a bit odd. It did not seem logical to give a gun to a man who had sworn to kill you. And yet I knew, in my heart of hearts, that our country had done the right thing. Thus I resolved to air my doubts with the sage of political sages, Yetimeister Rutger Fury...
...admit I have my own tuxedo, but--I must confess--I didn't buy it in anticipation of the 350th ball. Unfortunately, the event's planners, whoever they are (I sure didn't get a chance to vote for them), failed to foresee that many Harvard undergrads don't have formal wear just waiting in the closet for a night on the town...
...incomplete, most were impressed by its thoroughness, its spirit of self-criticism and the promptness with which it was prepared. Said Kennedy Maize, a senior analyst at the Washington office of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a group that has been critical of the nuclear-power industry: "I must confess that I think we know more at this stage about Chernobyl than was the case four months after Three Mile Island," the much less serious 1979 nuclear accident near Harrisburg...