Word: blurt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...date she is delightful?"a smashing bird," says Director Reisz. She can make away with a bottle of Taittinger between 6 and 8, kick up her heels with the Tijuana Brass, get so interested in what someone is saying that she misses her mouth with her fork, and blurt a delightfully risky remark if it seems to be in order. "My bras have all turned yellow," she groaned to a friend recently. "I expect Nanny has boiled them in urine...
...shape very late one evening when a new young faculty couple stops by for a nightcap. "Give your coats and stuff to sourpuss," snarls Martha, and the foursome is off on an orgy of truth-and-consequences that lasts until dawn. They slosh down a superhuman amount of booze, blurt family secrets, swap partners, claw the flesh away from old, still-festering wounds...
Highest Evidence. The hope is that such questions will lead to voluntary confessions, which have always been highly valued in U.S. courts. Whether it is the spontaneous blurt, the "threshold" confession immediately after the crime or the arrest ("Officer, I just killed my wife"), or the eventual uncoerced admission made by a suspect, the voluntary confession usually needs no corroboration for conviction. It is "the highest form of evidence," the legal analogue of the religious confession, although it may lead to execution rather than absolution...
...their capsule, the Wasp put in at Mayport, Fla. McDivitt and White were flown to Houston's Ellington Air Force Base, where their wives-both named Pat-their children and 1,500 well-wishers waited in 92° heat. Four-year-old Patrick McDivitt could hardly wait to blurt out some news. "Daddy! Daddy!" he cried. "I jumped off the high board!" McDivitt grinned, patted his son's head...
...Goldwater forces realize "that Barry could still blurt out some remark that would hurt his cause" in securing the Republican presidential nomination, how could he be trusted as President of the U.S. not to blurt out remarks that would hurt the cause of his country...