Word: confesser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard to imagine DuPre expecting to get away with it." There was no denying the Herald's expose. Author Reynolds announced candidly that he had been "duped" by the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated." Reader's Digest Editor DeWitt Wallace was equally stunned, explained that the Digest would confess its error in its January issue. "This mistake," said Random House's President Bennett Cerf, "is a beaut...
...wife and be sure of Heaven, than to be Queen of all the world and stand in doubt thereof." When Henry pressed her to agree that their marriage had been "unlawful" because she had been married briefly to his dead brother, she retorted that this would be "to confess to having been the King's harlot this 24 years." After Henry broke with the Roman Catholic Church and married Anne Boleyn, Katherine instructed adolescent Mary: "[Obey] the King your father in everything, save only that you will not offend God and lose your own soul...
...front office; hard-bitten Lem Shepherd angrily refused to see him. Last week the Marine Corps announced that an investigation was under way in the case of Colonel Schwable, Annapolis man, regular marine of 24 years' outstanding service and the highest-ranking American P.W. in Korea to confess to the Communist fantasies of germ warfare...
...feet long; held to the ground by two guards while a third kicked and slapped him; stood at attention 22 hours until he fell, then hit while lying down with the side of a hatchet . . . interrogated for three hours with a spotlight six inches from his face, ordered to confess while a pistol was held at the back of his head; placed under a roof drain all night during a rainstorm; left without food three days and water eight days; . . put before a firing squad and given a last chance; hung by the hands and feet from the rafters...
...LIEUT. JOSEPH E. MORELAND of Oil Hill, Kans.: "Interrogated for over 1,800 hours. He observed Soviet personnel guiding the interrogations. He was taken to Mukden . . . tried twice for refusing to confess germ warfare. The first trial ended in a sentence to a corrective labor camp-and a sentence of execution against his daughter in the U.S. At all times he was in solitary confinement...