Word: fessed
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...outspoken young woman says female athletes are "more disciplined" than men and disses Elvis in the heart of Tennessee ("He was a copycat"), yet she stays tight-lipped about the victim of her dunk. To his credit, Ryan Childress, a 6-ft. 9-in. freshman, is willing to fess up (yes, Parker slammed on a man 5 in. taller). Childress insists the tale has been exaggerated--"I was in the area," he says, laughing--but four eyewitnesses confirm Parker's account. No need to be ashamed, Ryan. You won't be the last person Parker dominates...
...Senate prepares to release a version of its report some time after July 4, a Pentagon official involved with pre-war intelligence suggests the simplest approach for the U.S. intelligence community would be to fess up. "We got fooled," said the official. "We should just admit it… Saddam wanted us to think he had these weapons ready. He wanted to have them. He had programs. He was doing his best to scrape them together. But he didn’t have them...
...psychological analysis, although he gives in to occasional bouts of didacticism. The book, like the show, is best when the writer gets out of the way of the story. When young Timmy breaks a neighbor's window, what's poignant is not so much that his father makes him fess up as that Big Russ wraps the broken glass neatly in a shoe box so that "the guys" hauling it away won't cut themselves. --By John F. Dickerson
...works and I don’t like it. You have to be honest about who you are, and that means admitting you have huge blind spots for a certain kind of movie and there are other kinds of movies you are almost actually allergic to but you gotta fess up to that. I can tell you a movie...
...Countries ... must learn from the SARS experience, and that is: fess up as soon as you find a case, as quickly as possible." ALEXANDER DOWNE, Australian Foreign Minister, on the deadly outbreak of bird flu in Southeast Asia...