Word: confessing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Cook and his men did turn up their share of marvels. Europeans were amazed when they read such things as Cook's anthropological notes on Tahiti: "One amusement or custom ... I must mention, though I confess I do not expect to be believed . . . More than one half of the better sort of the inhabitants have entered into a resolution of enjoying free liberty in love . . . The men will very readily offer the young women to strangers, even their own daughters, and think it very strange if you refuse them ..." The news of islands where sex and sin seemed...
...morning ago I ran across the words "unprincipled", "irresponsible", "invidious", and "shibboleth" in your paper. I confess that I am not up to all these big words before breakfast, since I am a simple man, and especially since (as possible subsequent investigation by secret-agents Wyant and Poskanzer will bear out) I am only an English major. Yet the April 26th letter, by the individuals mentioned above, confuses me a little. Far from wishing to submerge myself in this blood-bath of fierce partystrife, I would merely like to tender timidly some thoughts which are in no way representative...
Even Californians, who love nothing better than a noisy, unorthodox, whirling political campaign, had to confess to a feeling of bleary-eyed dizziness. Just as their primary election merry-go-round was speeding up, grey, quiet Senator Sheridan Downey jumped off. From Bethesda Naval Hospital he announced last week that he wouldn't be riding for the Democratic nomination after all. Reason: peptic ulcers and general weariness...
...Cardinal will know that Ghislana doesn't really stand a chance of getting Stephen away from his calling. Author Henry Morton Robinson, a onetime Reader's Digest roving editor, has at this point only half digested his hero's fictional possibilities. By having Stephen confess it all to wise old Dom Arcibal, Author Robinson handily saves Stephen and his novel as well...
...confess that I don't completely understand how your letter column is conducted. Perhaps this is because I am merely a junior and haven't learned the ropes yet. Perhaps, old hickory stick, it is because...