Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...machine had won the first round. When the lie detector was introduced, its grim little pointer spotted surprised liars almost as soon as they opened their mouths. Hardened virtuosos who could fool a cop, a clergyman-or even a wife-were no match for the polygraph...
...machines and their operators both had weaknesses. The liars, gaining experience, became so accomplished that Policeman John E. Reid, Chicago's lie-detector expert, has had to modernize his machines to cope with trickier lying...
...original lie detector measured the subject's respiration and blood pressure. These stayed at normal levels while the suspect was answering harmless preliminary questions. But when the questions struck nearer home, the emotional effort of lying made the heart pound harder, the breathing irregular. The machine marked such telltale reactions on a moving strip of paper...
...liars had not yet counterattacked, but no one believed they had really given up. So far, the struggle is a draw: the lie detector's findings are not accepted now (except by mutual agreement) in any court...
...rational person knows the Japs had started on this attempt and nothing could stop them unless we should lie down like cowards. And we would have been cowards...