Word: confessant
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...chairman was forced to confess...
Because law prevents plea-bargaining, officials have problems persuading the accused to confess to crimes and reveal information about other police, military, and government officers, he said...
...real" old-fashioned dinners he envies, Tyler has no pretensions about the claustrophobia bred by such intimacy. Beneath the respectable bourgeois values lies a barrenness that has decayed even the excitement of sex. Macon's instinctive response to the dogtrainer Muriel's aggressive passes is the urge to confess that ever since the separation from his wife, "sex...has turned (like milk...
...snapped at a group of celebrators, "It makes me sick to see you rejoicing like a butterfly in the last rays of the sun before the winter . . . Europe is done for; England most of all." And Joseph Conrad, whose son had been shell- shocked in France, wrote, "I cannot confess to an easy mind . . . Great and blind forces are set catastrophically all over the world...
...also facing murder charges in a trial scheduled to start in August. During their perjury trial, they insisted that they had been fighting for democracy and against Communism. Former Governor Carlos Romero Barcelo, who had at first called the policemen "heroes," then reversed himself as they began to confess, was defeated in last November's election, in part because of the public outcry over the handling of the case...