Word: confesser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example of how Stalin's interrogators faked the evidence in the great conspiracy trials of 1937, Khrushchev recited the case of Party Member Rosenblum: "When Rosenblum was arrested, he was subjected to terrible torture during which he was ordered to confess false information concerning himself and other persons. He was then brought to the office of Zakovsky [chief interrogator], who offered him freedom on condition that he make before the court a false confession fabricated in 1937 by the NKVD concerning sabotage, espionage and diversion in a terroristic center in Leningrad. With unbelievable cynicism Zakovsky told about the vile...
Professor (of social studies) Wootton gave no pat prescription for resolving the dilemma, but confided: "For my own part I must confess that I can never listen to panegyrics of mental health as smooth personal adjustment without being haunted by the ghost of that most misfitting of all misfits-Florence Nightingale. Had that astonishing woman been born of this generation, must we suppose that a Child Guidance Clinic would have put an early stop to all her nonsense...
...time the Sultan's barnstorming won friends and depleted Communist ranks. But the Sultan knew he could not keep up this pace forever. He announced his next step: a personal amnesty to all who confessed. At each village, when not dancing or feasting, the Sultan retired to a secluded hut, where villagers arrived singly and in small groups to confess their errors and offer information about the local Communists. More than 300 Communists surrendered to the Sultan personally, and he got so much information about others that the security police rounded them up in droves...
...really smiled on him for two decades. His plays had pitiably flopped. At the opening-night curtain of one of them he was hooted off the London stage. His late novels, with their labyrinthine sentences and ideas, scarcely sold, and even fond brother William had been forced to confess: "I for one am no longer able to read a word he writes." Yet James was sustained by glimmerings of posthumous greatness which he revealed in a letter to Fellow Novelist William Dean Howells: "Some day all my buried prose will kick off its various tombstones at once...
...would prefer another candidate. To thrust the crown upon Nixon at this time, therefore, would simply be to increase the force of that assault. For the President to dump Nixon at San Francisco, however, would be to acknowledge that his high praise did not necessarily convey unswerving support; to confess, in effect, that he had made a serious mistake, or to imply that his desire for re-election might lead him to place expediency above right...