Word: confessional
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Pfc. Lawrence Rix of Dowagiac, Mich, had only done what many prisoners do: he stole food. Somebody squealed, and he was stripped almost naked and forced to stay in a cold hole for two days. Pfc. Joe Allen told of a "pro" who reported him when he tried to escape...
...Carlo confessed to the prison chaplain that Carlo had been framed. By doing this, one of the three had got a lighter sentence. "Why haven't you said so before?" asked the chaplain. "I was afraid I would be shot," the man said. Under the seal of the confessional, the priest could not repeat the information, but when the man died the priest wrote to Rome about it. Six months later an official from the public prosecutor's called on the priest, who swore to the truth of the confession. That was in 1937, but the wheels...
Then followed the succession of carefully controlled gestures of easing up: 1) an amnesty, signed by Voroshilov, for short-term prisoners; 2) foreigners held in Soviet prisons on espionage counts were released; 3) retail prices were reduced on 125 categories of consumer goods; 4) the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced...
Confession. On the night of Aug. 8, Jean got back late from Vichy and crept into bed with his wife. Pierre entered their room, gripping his shotgun. Marie slipped out of bed. Pierre fired. The first shot fractured Jean's shoulder. "You're crazy!" Jean shouted, but a...
During the 1940 presidential race, Republican Candidate Wendell Willkie was fiercely attacked by the pinko PM, now defunct, in a series of columns signed Paul Revere II. Last week, at the second session of the pre-trial testimony in a $1,500,000 libel suit brought against Walter Winchell by...