Word: confessional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The raids on Moscow were in a sense a Russian triumph, for they were a confession of German frustration. They served little military purpose; they were an attack on civil morale.
"About these polls there is one cheering development. It is the increasing number of pollees who answer 'I don't know.' . . . Confession of ignorance is a private virtue and a public service."
This sensational pre-World War II exploit is spoiled by a Nazi guard, who overpowers the Englishman. At Berchtesgaden the hunter's laconic explanation that it was only a sporting, not a shooting stalk, gets short shrift. An extra-special Nazi third degree fails to alter his story. Unable...
Three years ago White had been sentenced. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed the conviction. He was tried again, convicted again. His case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, where the verdict was reversed. Texas officials applied for a rehearing but the court turned them down. Onetime Ku Kluxer Justice...
Old Bolshevik Nicolas Rubashov, former People's Commissar, former commander in the Red Army, a fictional composite of the late liquidated Leo Kamenev and Nikolai Bukharin, is broken down by the GPU, induced to sign a false confession and declare at a public trial that he had plotted to...