Word: confesser
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...forced to confess...
...guest book that remains in the Hiroshima atomic museum, Americans still come and confess their sense of awe. They mostly offer simple words like "Peace" and "Never again." One wrote, "I hate what we did." Another could not bring himself to record anything more than "Sorry...
...purported kiryukha (old buddy) was a major in the MGB, the Ministry of State Security, who promptly took him to jail. What began as a delayed luncheon lasted seven years and eight months. For the first 18 months the MGB tried unsuccessfully to force their prisoner to confess that he was a spy, than sentenced him to 25 years of hard labor anyway. He served only a third of that, but not until he was almost 30 did Alexander Dolgun walk a Moscow street again...
...very finest thing we could say for those boys is to confess that we sacrificed them to our pride in a losing battle, that we Americans have wasted our human energies trying to play God and win forever...
Many undergraduates who live in the Houses confess that they'd move off campus if it weren't for their laziness or worries about losing contact with the Harvard community. (Mayer recognizes this problem of losing touch and says that his primary responsibility as master is "to create a sense of community for students who don't live on campus and to make myself accessible to them.") Mayer doesn't kid around when it comes to his obligations to Dudley residents. (Eight hours after he delivered a speech to the United Nations World Food Conference on Hunger in Geneva...