Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan's lush and formidable South Seas base was suddenly fixed in hundreds of U.S. airmen's bombsights. Carrier planes -Avengers and Dauntless dive-bombers -hurtled across the green islands which lie within Truk's barrier coral reef, screamed down onto the shipping moored inside the 40-mile-wide lagoon. Snub-nosed Hellcats swirled into fights with Jap defenders, shot them from the air, caught plenty more ignominiously on the ground. After the first few hours there was no longer any doubt: the enemy had been caught napping...
...lie detector won. In Brooklyn last week Mrs. Edna Hancock, who had pitted her word against that of a lie detector in a recent rape case (TIME, Jan. 10), was indicted for perjury. Her alleged rapist, Murray Goldman, was saved from a ten-year prison sentence...
...case could not alter the fact that lie detectors may sometimes lie,* but that was all right with Mr. Goldman. Mrs. Hancock, an employe of Brooklyn State Hospital, had charged that he broke into her room and tried to rape her. A jury convicted him. But when the lie detector supported his story that he was no stranger to Mrs. Hancock's favors, Judge Samuel Leibowitz went hunting for corroborative evidence. Result: several other men friends of Mrs. Hancock (besides her husband) turned up. She finally admitted that she had met Goldman before. Last week the District Attorney waved...
...purchased fresh fish from the natives. To reach Newchwang, at the northern end of the Gulf of Liaotung, the submarine would have had to penetrate the string of islands off the southern tip of Japan, cross the Yellow Sea, creep past the Jap naval base at Port Arthur, lie off nominally Jap-occupied territory. Total Pacific bag of U.S. submarines to date (including twelve more merchant sinkings announced last week...
First Blood. Whatever Pravda meant with its "rumor from Cairo," the consequences of publication and later broadcast were swift and frightening. The British Government presented its stern denial directly to the Soviet Government. The British press fired harsh words at Russia for the first time since Hitler turned east: lie, insult, slander. Nazi propaganda set to work to prove a fatal rift in the fabric of agreement supposedly woven at Teheran, raise again the specter of a Red Europe. Ordinary Russians, taught to believe their press implicitly, now wondered whether Britain was about to betray them. In the U.S. many...