Word: confessant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Through legal maneuvers, Bundy, 42, had won three earlier stays of execution. But his luck ran out on Jan. 23, when the Supreme Court refused another delay. Cocky and contemptuous at his 1980 trial, Bundy turned remorseful in his final days, offering to confess to an array of unsolved murders. "Ted Bundy feels morally compelled as he faces death to do the right thing," said Diana Weiner, one of his attorneys...
...tight little chiseler, while the movie-star vamp has a fugitive innocence the more theatrical for being real. Chandler's greatest technical flaw -- his way, ironically, with plots -- arose from the simple fact that he felt the only real mystery worth investigating was morality, and why only the innocent confess, while murderers are brought to no justice but their...
Perhaps. Not everyone, however, feels guilty. One man called in to confess he had embezzled $10 million in a computer scam -- and happily announced that % he was well and living in the Bahamas...
Xueliang took part in a three-day demonstration attended by nearly 30,000 students to force the provincial governor of Hofei to confess corruption...
Glasser writes that Library officials confess "that there is no way to predict how many people will use the newly installed terminals or how the technology will affect the research habits of the community as a whole." Why not? Didn't the staff at OIT check with other universities that have been using this kind of new-fangled technology for the last ten years...