Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Dean said he would never go to war again without a suicide pill as insurance against captivity. Dr. Joost K. M. Merloo, a Dutch psychiatrist who worked in the anti-Nazi underground during World War II, testified that any man-including the members of the court-would eventually confess if subjected to Communist mental torture...
...have a perverse sectional pride in our Southern demagogues, and have championed them as being considerably above those of other regions in any fair rating of aptitudes for their work. It is with chagrin that I confess a growing conviction that Senator McCarthy-a damned-Yankee, and a Roman Catholic one at that-just about has it made as the Exalted Kleagle and Imperial Wizard of all the Demagogues. The shades of Heflin and Bilbo-aye, even that of the superb Huey Long, must stand in their limbos with reverent awe at the spectacle of the meretricious antics of McCarthy...
Many of the night watchmen in the Houses have found time during their work to strike up acquaintances with students, though sociability is not formally listed, in the night watchmen's rule book. Some men confess that they have arranged occasional dates over the telephone for girls from other schools who were in desperate need of eligible men for parties. Daniel J. Gannon at Winthrop House, who has been a painter and paperhanger in off-hours, has often taken students who wanted to ears extra money on jobs with him. Frank A. Coughlin at Adams House has specialized in providing...
...Hospital for his final Army physical examination, found himself, without ad vance warning, in a locked room under guard. And a little later, the Marine Corps announced that a board of inquiry had been formed to handle the case of Colonel Frank Schwable, U.S.M.C., the top-ranking American to "confess" to phony Red claims of U.S. germ warfare...
Death at the Altar. But Manolios has been growing into his role. Down from the mountain he comes, to confess the murder and give his life for the village. When the real murderer is exposed, Manolios, reprieved, takes up the cause of the cave-dwelling refugees. When he persuades others to side with the refugees-including a rich man's son who gives the family estates away to them-the priest and elders are wildly incensed...