Word: confessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...from September to December 1960 three incidents that led quickly to suicides. The first involved a soldier of the Artillery Company, Kung Ho-yu, an excellent League member and a "five-excellence" soldier. On Aug. 25 he stole three yuan ($1.80), and on the 30th of the same month confessed his wrong. Someone, while charging him with previous thefts, cried: "If you freely confess, we shall be lenient with you, but if you deny these charges we shall be very severe." Kung showed that his feelings were deeply and bitterly stirred, and that night, when he was on sentry duty...
...Connor got a schooling of sorts in the Irish Republican Army and Dublin jails during the '20s, before turning out tiis wry, dry tales of family life, fisticuffs and "coorting" on the old sod, honing a comic sense of Irish blather and illogic, which once led him to confess that like the I.R.A.'s "make-believe revolution, I had to content myself with a make-believe education, and the curious thing is that it was the make-believe that succeeded...