Word: inquisitor
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...admissions which Senator Black succeeded in extracting during the odd hours when Chairman O'Connor was not pre-empting the time of their joint witness, but well did Mr. Hopson know from those first brief experiences that he was in the hands of an expert inquisitor...
Alabama's Black. The true expertness of Senator Black's examination was shown by the way he made his witness give only such answers as Mr. Black desired. The first time Witness Hopson tried to explain one of his answers, Inquisitor Black shut him off: "Just state the facts. We don't want speeches here. . . . We don't want philosophy. . . . You suggested that the Administration be accused of lobbying on this bill...
...inquisitor heard Police Sergeant William Watkins say that about 25 babies had died at the Brooks farm and that he had "good reason to believe that some of these little victims came to their deaths by means of poison or violence or consequences of some criminal...
...inquisitor heard Brooks deny the accusations and retort: "Do you remember in Shakespeare's King Lear how the illegitimate son stood over the other one and said: 'The wheel has come full turn'? Well, I won't revenge myself. But I'll be proven right. I have been doing God's work for 65 years. All my life has been devoted to other people. Whenever I wanted to do something for myself I had to wait until others were asleep...
...make sure that Brooks's activities did not exceed U. S. folk custom and include murder, the inquisitor last week ordered men with mattocks, picks and shovels to hack into the frozen sand among the Brooks's birches. Soon the chilled diggers pried out two infants wrapped in old newspapers. One of the infants seemed to have had a fractured skull...