Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practice of confession has firm Biblical roots; the Epistle of James advises: "Confess your sins to one another, that you may be healed." In the early church, penance was usually a public ritual at which penitents openly disclaimed serious wrongdoings before the assembled congregation. Not until 1215 was confession to a priest made the norm for the church, by the Fourth Lateran Council. According to canon law, Catholics must confess any mortal (serious) sins before receiving Holy Communion, and as a rule they are expected to do so at least once a year...
Although spitball pitchers traditionally feign innocence, a few finally have begun to confess their guilt. "I've got moist hands," admits the Chicago White Sox's Bob Locker. And the Mets' Koonce asks: "Why shouldn't I say I throw one? A lot of guys know I do." Including, of course, the umpires, who rarely enforce Rule 8.02-because, they claim, it is unenforceable. "You may know a pitch was a spitter-but how do you prove it?" shrugs Cal Hubbard, the American League's supervisor of umpires, and one of his subordinates says...
...George Tyrrell. A convert from Protestantism, Tyrrell proposed that the church restate its beliefs in the light of discoveries made by science and philosophy-a view that Rome found no more palatable than the novelties of Loisy. Expelled from the Jesuits, Tyrrell was excommunicated in 1907; he refused to confess his errors, died two years later. Yet even Pius X was moved by Tyrrell's death. "Unlike most arch-heretics, he died a good Christian," the Pontiff was said to have told a friend...
...deployed 340 recruiters to find 2,000 new graduates, figures to wind up with only 1,500 or so. Chicago's Inland Steel sweetened its 1966 salaries by as much as 8%, still fell so short of engineers that it began scouring Canadian campuses. Illinois Bell Telephone recruiters confess that "we even hired a theology student last month. He is going into public relations or the commercial...
...those who share their goals. Second only to the fear that criticism will be suppressed is the fear of critics that they will be found in association with someone who, for whatever eccentric reason, has developed a latter day affection for Ho Chi Minh. This is silly. I do confess to wishing that all who are concerned about Vietnam would be more concerned with winning friends and influencing their fellow citizens in effective fashion...