Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weigh 165 Ibs. and wear glasses. The chances are 100 to i against your wearing a beard, 10 to 1 against your having a mustache. Instead you shave clean every day, and you are more likely to swear than sing while you are doing it. You don't admit to a bay window-and you have no use for setting up exercises...
...still find time for civic activities and civilian defense, and for your favorite hobbies- gardening, photography, golf, fishing. You have a radio, of course, and your favorite programs are Information, Please, Fibber McGee and Molly, and Jack Benny. You are likely to play a musical instrument yourself, and you admit you play it pretty well (the odds are it's the piano, but it could be the violin, clarinet or saxophone, or even the tipple, zither or glockenspiel). You go to the movies only once every other week or so (whenever there's a picture you really want...
...into an audible snooze. When his horrified co-defendants awoke him he reached for a pencil, drew his classical cartoon of contempt of court (see cut) which he captioned "Art Young on trial for his life." After the case had been dropped, the prosecuting attorney (who had had to admit that "everybody likes Art Young") bid for the picture...
Courts in general consider lie detectors too unreliable to admit their findings as conclusive evidence. Psychologists are equally skeptical of them. There are now some half-dozen such instruments, depending variously on measurements of blood pressure, breathing, heartbeats, etc., to detect emotional disturbances that are believed to be associated with lying. But, although some inventors claim better than 85% accuracy, proof of a lie detector's infallibility is obviously impossible to obtain. There is no way of guaranteeing that, in some cases, even the best instrument may not tell the wrong story...
...island have grown bored and homesick despite efforts to amuse them with movies, beer gardens, barbecues. Women are also scarce. Total population of the island is only 55,000, more than half of whom are native Melanesians, with 8,000 Tonkinese and Javanese. But no military authorities would admit, nor could any U.S. observer report, any such generally immoral conditions as the Governor described...