Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pair" (falsely claiming an accomplice has talked); he also recommends "pretense of physical evidence," such as a faked lie-detector test or fake lab reports that play on the gullible suspect's "mystical notions of the power of scientific crime detection." Above all, says O'Hara, the interrogator "must dominate his subject and overwhelm him with his inexorable will to obtain the truth...
While just about everyone wants an election in the Dominican Republic, the fear has persisted that the campaign preceding it might only intensify the hatreds that lie just beneath the surface. Last week, with all three major candidates entered in the field and the election only six weeks away, the Dominicans were acting with unaccustomed calm. All the parties seemed ready to abide by the election results, and even the military promised the winner full cooperation. The campaign was conspicuously subdued. Even the memory of Santo Domingo's violent fighting and demonstrations was quietly receding...
Your modest proposal was an excellent one. Many undergraduates need time to discover where their interests lie and to decide what to do with themselves. As you pointed out, this time is not available...
Governor has suddenly become interested in water and air pollution, beautification of the Hudson river valley, and minimum wage legislation, Roosevelt alleged, "Just like he did before the election four years ago." lie has acted only when his political survival is at stake, Roosevelt added...
...pseudopolitical intrigues in a Latin American republic where the peasants are revolting and their leaders disgusting. In the end, the book sinks of its own weight (2 Ibs. 2 oz.) and its excesses: four-letter words that are stuck everywhere like flies on flypaper and clichés that lie in clutches on practically every page ("El presidente's face went white with anger . . . 'I have had men shot for saying less!' "). Readers who like to spot the fictional distortions of real-life people in Robbins' books (Howard Hughes and Jean Harlow in The Carpetbaggers) will...