Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For Bucher, the grillings never let up. Brought before Super-C on his first day of captivity, he was told that he had two minutes to sign a confession or he would be shot. An officer held an automatic pistol to the back of his head. On the verge of...
Why not make our code realistic? Proclaim to the world that a captured soldier is regarded as a puppet while in enemy hands. As such, he will mouth words or write documents as his captor dictates. Thus, the propaganda value of a "confession" will become insignificant, and the helpless prisoner...
As Rolfe playing Pope, McCowen basks deliciously in all the power and glory: swishing his stunning robes with epicene pleasure, outwitting a cluster of conniving cardinals or charming his opponents into loyalty and love, reforming the Church singlehanded in a series of staggering coups, then meeting his martyrdom, complete with...
Man-Killing Rounds. The match, held at the Oriental Park Race Track in Havana on a blistering hot April afternoon, was scheduled for a man-killing 45 rounds. It lasted 26, or one hour and 44 minutes, making it the longest heavyweight championship bout in this century. Five years later...
Though the alleged confession is fancifully made the dramatic crux of The Great White Hope, there has never been any evidence to substantiate it. Indeed, a film of the match discovered just two years ago proves Willard's oft-repeated claim that he "beat him fair and square." Excerpts...