Word: confessional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, Pittsburgh's rugged redhead who won the Congressional Medal of Honor near Altavilla (TIME, March 20), began a 90-day tour of U.S. Army camps, after making a confession: "Being a hero is the bunk. I wish I was going across."
With the school closed, the community in an uproar and a state investigation under way, Assistant Attorney General James W. Austin finally got a confession from four of Teacher Pauline Rebel's pupils. Their story: Teacher Rebel is nearsighted, even with her glasses. Her pupils stuck lighted matches in...
There was already testimony about his perversion: Assistant District Attorney Jacob Grumet testified that Lonergan confessed (this unsigned confession is now repudiated by the defendant and his lawyers) to homosexual relations, both before and after his marriage. One of the men involved is said to have been William Burton, Lonergan...
All this fits the classic definition of a homosexual: "One who prefers his own but may accept the opposite sex." To most people Lonergan does not look like a homosexual. Contrary to popular legend, homosexuals are not necessarily physically abnormal, though sometimes a glandular disturbance is involved. As a rule...
It took about an hour in the briefing hut to get all the dope. Then the chaplains came in. A Protestant guy and a Catholic guy. Each had a service at the same time in opposite corners. Just said a little prayer for us and then wished us luck. Most...