Word: inference
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your Essay on jargon points up one of the most basic problems in human understanding and communication: our misunderstandings with others often arise not out of what we say but out of what others infer from what they think we've said...
...that advantage may be lost if the defendant takes the stand a second time, especially if he tells a new story. Armed with the first trial record, the prosecutor can trap him into contradictions. Yet if a defendant does not testify, the jury, despite all judicial admonitions, will probably infer guilt. Bailey, however, interviewed the first-trial jurors and was convinced that his client's rather arch answers on the witness stand had hurt him badly. Sheppard did not testify at his second trial and, fortunately for him, neither did Susan Hayes, the attractive lab technician who appeared...
...will be left with the impression from the story on Billy Casper [July 1] that he was fat and sick because he was a Congregationalist. Congregationalists are fat and sick, I am sure, in about the same proportion as members of any other religious group. However, if your readers infer that Casper became a superior golfer because he was first a Congregationalist, they may be nearer the truth. Congregationalists are often fine golfers, as I can attest on many a sunny Sunday morning...
...They Want Computers" [June 10], TIME says that "Bata Shoe" technicians showed up at the International Computer Exhibition in Prague. The context is such that readers might infer that Bata is a Communist operation headquartered in Czechoslovakia. But for more than 25 years there have been no contacts between Bata Ltd. and the Communists in any country; no members of our organization went to the Prague exhibition. Probably those technicians who appeared came from the nationalized Czechoslovakian footwear industry, which in the main comprises the factories belonging to the Bata organization that were expropriated some 20 years...
Fifteen minutes of the film, in which Coburn portrays a roguish playboy, were in Boston. DeHaven said that audiences are supposed to infer from the Boston location that Coburn and Miss Sparv are at Harvard. The University's name is not specifically mentioned...