Word: hoodwinked
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...involves sweating. The changes purportedly occur under the emotional stress of lying. But however sensitive it is, the machine is not infallible. Results of lie-detector tests normally are not admitted as evidence in court cases because they are not considered reliable enough. A coolly determined person can sometimes hoodwink the machine, as TIME Reporter-Researcher Eileen Shields did in a polygraph test at Dale System headquarters. By trying to remain calm and control her physical responses, she successfully convinced her questioner that she was 26 years old instead of her correct age, 29. "I tried to think...
...more than either Richard Nixon or Hubert Humphrey. If crowd reactions are any indication, the disorders in Chicago have only strengthened his repressive "law and order" theme. "The other two national parties," he said on television last week, "are panic-stricken because they realize that they can no longer hoodwink the American people. They have stayed in power this long only because there was no other choice...
...mystery by creating others. Nor does it help his case for an imminent apocalypse to explain flaws in the brief by making the U.S. Air Force the villain of a conspiracy to suppress the truth; he believes that the Pentagon's reassuring statements about UFOs are designed to hoodwink the public into supposing that they are psychological, meteoric, or astral in origin. Nor is sinister Air Force activity confined to the U.S. "What," he asks, "was the mysterious substance that dribbled from a crippled disk over Brazil in 1954?" The Brazilian air force gathered...
...Johnson says, he knew nothing of the activities of Bobby Baker. Billie Sol Estes or Mr. Jenkins, he must be extremely naive. If people whom he has known well over many years can hoodwink him this easily, think how our enemies may deceive him. If, on the other hand, he was aware of these things but did nothing about them, it can only be concluded that he condoned the actions of these...
Edward L. Bernays and John R. Moot of Cambridge, co-chairmen of the group, issued a statement in which they said: "The Committee believes that such attempts to hoodwink the public with improperganda are a betrayal of the public trust, and it is now exploring ways and means to prevent a repetition of such tactics...