Word: confesser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Potboiler. In Savannah, Amateur Moonshiner Caleb Grimes staggered 14 miles from his farm to police headquarters to confess that he had,just spent two days trying to recover from the effects of sampling his homemade whisky, wheezed: "Get rid of the stuff before it kills somebody...
Confronted with the horrible example of Editor Fedoseev, nearly 1,000 Soviet economists and writers gathered at a mass meeting in Moscow last week to confess in public their sin of having once praised the works of Nikolai A. Voznesensky...
...hours police combed the area, finally picked up a Negro hitchhiker named Silas Rogers, and got him to confess that he had stolen the car in Raleigh, N.C., shot the cop. The court would not allow Rogers' confession to be used at his trial; there was clear evidence he had confessed only after a brutal third degree. But when the two soldiers identified Rogers as the Negro who had picked them up in the stolen car, he was convicted, sentenced to death...
...across the face of London. Main highways and back alleys wind through its campus. Students of medicine and Marathi, English history and household work commute to classes. "Could anything be more absurd?" asked Educational Critic Abraham Flexner in his famed 1930 critique of American, English and German universities. "I confess myself unable to understand in what sense the University of London is a university...
...does not manage to authenticate as history, but which have at least fictional verisimilitude. Stalin's bosom friend, Ordjonikidze, poisoned by Stalin's orders, shouts into a telephone as he lies dying: "Koba, I go, but you will follow me."- Red Army Marshal Tukhachevsky refuses to confess, and is felled by a bullet from the NKVD chief, Nikolai Yezhov. Red Army Marshal Blucher is called before the Politburo, where Stalin praises him as a genius. Marshal Voroshilov sends Blucher a look, as if to say: "Deny it. Say you haven't any genius...