Word: confessional
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Scribbled in a notebook among the Canadian spy papers was the name Fuchs, but for a long time nobody thought to connect the name significantly with German-born Klaus Fuchs, an anti-Hitler refugee who was high in Anglo-American atom councils. Four years passed before Klaus Fuchs was arrested...
Last week the 52-year-old general, a Prussian army veteran, marched into the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Department office in Nürnberg to make a paradoxical confession. It was he who had given the face-saving poison to the man whom he had accused.
The committee had hardly left New York before the powder which had spilled during ex-Fireman Crane's confession began to go off. In tones of hurried, hoarse outrage, Mayor Vincent Impellitteri gave Water Commissioner James J. Moran 24 hours to resign the $15,000-a-year lifetime job...
Actor Parks had one more question to answer; the committee wanted to know the names of his Communist cellmates. Replied Parks: "Don't present me with the choice of going to jail or crawling through the mud by being an informer." The committee agreed to force no public disclosures...
All this had been bruising enough to her spirits. While admitting that she could do "anything" on a stage, including "wiggling my ears," she was really a poetic type who hoped some day to do Shakespeare. But Sidney's getting himself in jail as a swindler had almost been...