Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...irreverent study of the numbers game called How to Lie with Statistics, Author Darrell Huff coined the word "statisticulation"-the art of lying with statistics while seeming objective. One trade that statisticulates regularly is advertising. A nostrum for piles or pyorrhea is endorsed by eight cut of ten physicians because the ad agency has tirelessly spent time and money assembling panel after panel until it finds one that shows an eight-out-of-ten result...
...born to be an actress, and if they take it away from me, I will just lie down...
...outcry against caning stems largely from two recent cases involving brutality in the application of corporal punishment. In May, Headmaster William Michael Byrd of Britain's Cholderton College was sentenced to five years in prison for forcing schoolboys to lie naked across a bed, then beating them brutally with a stick. Last month Home Secretary Roy Jenkins ordered the closing of Court Lees in Surrey, a so-called "approved school," which handles potential juvenile delinquents, after its headmaster and an assistant were accused of caning boys "with excessive severity." Recently, the Royal Navy abolished its traditional caning of youthful...
...while he was in the Air Force. Like most of the 1 00,000 U.S. paraplegics (both legs disabled) and quadriplegics (both arms and legs disabled), Boudreaux was constantly prey to excruciating decubitus ulcers, better known as bedsores. In the Veterans Administration Hospital in Memphis, he was condemned to lie in bed, face down, so no bony prominences could cause pressure and ulcers...
...Lie, now a director of ITT's Norwegian affiliate, and onetime Belgian Premier Paul-Henri Spaak, whose position as director of the company's Belgian subsidiary has inspired one Brussels paper to refer to him as "Paul HenriTT...