Word: confession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modest $280 million on its lagging defense, and has threatened to stop all support payments for the four British divisions in Germany after May 1957. The British taxpayer, Macmillan made clear, was fed up with Germany's letting Britain carry Germany's defenses. Since Germany had to confess that it could supply only 360,000 German troops instead of the 500,000 it had promised, West Germany's Heinrich von Brentano agreed to make up the difference by continuing to pay British support costs...
...that Britain had to withdraw from Suez without getting the canal or bringing down Nasser, Selwyn Lloyd had two options: to confess defeat or to brazen it through. He chose to claim a victory...
...like Banal to say the obvious . . . Why must we chatter fruitlessly and endlessly about philosophy and politics? I confess that I am only interested in questions that touch the heart of another human being-"Who are you sleeping with?"; "What do you take for quick relief from acid indigestion...
...name of Bela Kovacs was something for Nagy to conjure with. A husky, muscular peasant from Pecs, a good speaker, Kovacs was the organizational genius of the Smallholders until arrested in 1947, forced to "confess" and shipped off to Siberia. Earlier this year, after nine years in Soviet prison camps, he returned to Pecs, where he was living quietly, avoiding politics. His appointment was as much a surprise to him as to everyone else in Hungary. Said a Hungarian: "He comes as close as anyone we know to being an anti-Communist." The question was, had nine years of prison...
...have a democracy, and you should subscribe to it," scolded the judge. But the law of the Mennonite community was still the one Farmer Hege had to deal with, and there he still stood condemned. All Hege need do to return to the fold, said Bishop Horst, was to "confess his error." Said Adin: "I think I'll leave it lay right...