Word: confesser
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Long buffeted by internal conflict, the four defense lawyers had finally agreed that the best defense was no defense. They had good reason. The three girls on trial with Manson had insisted that they were going to confess their part in the grisly Sharon Tate murder case. The lawyers wanted to stop them. Amid the confusion of legal argument, Manson himself won Judge Charles Older's permission to take the stand outside the jury's presence. "I've killed no one," he insisted. "I've ordered no one to be killed. These children who come...
...when I was accused of robbing a gas station of seventy dollars I accepted a deal-I agreed to confess and spare the county court costs in return for a light county jail sentence. I confessed but when time came for sentencing they tossed me into the penitentiary with one to life. That was 1960. I was eighteen years old. I've been here ever since. I met Marx Lenin, Trotsky, Engels, and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed...
...Somerset Cabaret" and invited Jacques over to entertain for a spell. And is the dear boy still doing well, you ask. That, it seems, is debatable. The opening night audience couldn't have been more appreciative. ("Those songs just knock me out," one lady was so moved to confess.) But there's a world of difference between the gilded gold of the Somerset's Louis Quatorze ballroom and the smoky post-war cabaret in which, one suspects, Brel's songs would be most at home. Whatever merits the original Charles production might have possessed, there's no doubt but they...
...heard by commission staffers, a process that usually took years. In the end, the advertiser signed a consent agreement promising not to err again. Last year a group of George Washington University law students argued that the FTC should take a much harsher stand and force offending advertisers to confess in their ads that they had lied. In two proposed orders, the FTC did just that...
...hard-hat type of guy (making $160 a week and enjoying it less) who one day hears a stranger sitting next to him at a bar confess to a murder. This stranger, you see, is a $60,000-a-year advertising exec who has just killed his wayward daughter's junkie-freak boyfriend and has no fears about admitting his crime to the first person he sees...