Word: confessant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from basic training. "It's a little nerve-racking, like he said it would be. Going into a new society, I mean," she explains. "For most of basic, I won't see children or watch TV or hear music or even see animals." Cooper, however, does not confess any apprehension. He calls Yasenak "Yasenak," like a pal, and believes he knows what he's getting into. "He showed me videos of the different Army occupations I could take." A combat specialty does not appeal? "You can't really get a job, later in life, firing mortars...
...underground interrogation center, concealed by a pile of corpses where the building once stood. Dean Epps could really be let loose in the underground as the Queen Bee of a swarm of the little stingers, directing them in defecation flights and pelting recalcitrant students with "yellow rain" until they confess their guilt in "political crimes" against U.S. imperialism...
Until the mining episode, most legislators felt, Casey had been keeping the committees adequately informed. Nor is the CIA director solely to blame for the gaps that have since appeared in the legislators' knowledge. Several Senators on the Intelligence Committee confess they were remiss in not insisting on a briefing on CIA activities in Nicaragua early this year, and for failing to question Casey on references he made to the mining when he did meet with them twice in March. (The House Intelligence Committee was briefed on Jan. 31.) Still, Moynihan and others contend that Casey, at minimum...
They hit me with a but: after placing a stick behind my knees, and making me get down on my knees, they stepped on my thighs. They said. "Even a well-trained spy from North Korea will confess when we do this "When the stick was broken they brought another to continue...
...trouble began in 1981 after Guinn, a divorcee with four children, began seeing former Collinsville Mayor Pat Sharp, a divorced man. Confronted by the three elders who govern the church, Guinn admitted to an affair. Her confession, she says, was to remain confidential. When she refused their demand to repent in front of the entire 110-member congregation, the elders issued an ultimatum: if she did not confess publicly in two weeks they would issue a formal statement to the congregation denouncing her "fornication" and calling on members to "withdraw fellowship" from...