Word: confesser
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...loving father had been found at last. Boswell fell at the great man's feet to confess what a bad boy he had been and to beseech counsel. Johnson gave it without stint, and when Boswell sailed for the continent a few weeks later he made a two-day journey to Harwich to put him on board and to comfort a frightened young man he had known little more than two months...
...criminal lawyer, I confess that when I turned to the article, I had a preconceived feeling that a layman's oversimplification of complex technical issues, colored perhaps by a widespread attitude toward criminal law matters and constricted by the necessarily short format of your articles, could only result in an inconsequential piece of ephemera. This letter is penance for an injustice I did you. The article was a brilliant piece of writing, painstakingly fair and objective, and constituted a real public service. You have cracked a hardened artery in my working prejudices...
...punish Asa the Scribe, and make him confess before all Harvard...
...crushed hand that no doctor would agree to see until a neighbor promised to pay for treatment. There was the rash that expensively baffled two experts-until the lady in question discovered bedbugs. Though such examples are exceptions, the profession itself admits enough errors to give people pause. Doctors confess that too many unnecessary operations are performed-at attractive fees. After a study of 6,248 hysterectomies, Dr. James C. Doyle concluded that one-third "seemed to be unwarranted." Harvard's Dr. Osier Peterson, assistant visiting professor of preventive medicine, notes that tonsillectomies, "which most academicians agree...
...police solve a string of burglaries committed by a professional who is never caught in the act? Not by fingerprints, wristwatch radios and brilliant deduction. What it takes is tedious, routine police work-hiring informers, watching known burglars, and questioning suspicious persons. Even then, a prime suspect may not confess and "clear the books" of all those unsolved burglaries until he is offered a deal, such as concurrent sentences equaling the rap for just one burglary. "Despite modern advances in the technology of crime detection," summed up the late Justice Felix Frankfurter, "offenses frequently occur about which things cannot...