Word: detective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What the surveyors had failed to detect was the baleful presence of an invisible cliff dweller-a dragon widely believed by local villagers to have lived there at least since the Sung Dynasty...
Crying Cuckoos. The poem, based on a 16th century Chinese novel, is romantic, melodramatic and at times mildly erotic. Westerners will detect elements of The Perils of Pauline and The Story of O. The 3,525-line poem recounts 15 hellish years in the life of a young girl, Vuong Thuy Kieu. She is beautiful, talented, virtuous-and just headstrong enough to make her interesting in spite of her other sterling qualities. To help pay her family's debts, Kieu sells herself into concubinage and is tricked into becoming a common whore in the house of a ruthless madam...
...country. No administration could believe that America the Bountiful had any economic confines. No administration was ever able to forestall the time when energies would be insufficient to support the burgeoning nation. Governments have not only missed the handwriting on the wall; they have scarcely been able to detect the wall. Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall recently put the dilemma in concrete terms: "Treasury Secretary George Shultz asserted that we would have to crank up a 'crash plan' to develop our own resources to 'cool the swagger of the Arab nations...
This large degree of ambiguity led many to hope that the report failed to detect many school conditions that do indeed affect the child's education...
...believe that they can uncover almost any kind of tampering, the hard evidence seems to dispute this. Last August the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. put on a radio show in which nine audio specialists were asked to identify parts of a tape that had been doctored. They were unable to detect 90% of the edits-but reported finding numerous nonexistent changes. Producer Max Allen explained: "In a speech by Roy Cohn [Joe McCarthy's onetime protégé], they said they had looked at their oscilloscopes and swore they saw edits. But it was just Cohn's pattern...