Word: lying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Portland's Democratic Mayor Terry Schrunk, elected with Teamster help, had agreed to take a lie-detector test to help him refute testimony that he had, as sheriff of Multnomah County, taken a $500 bribe from a gambler. But when he went to take the test, Schrunk objected to six questions (e.g., "While sheriff, did you receive any payoffs from any gamblers?"), stalked out. Later he told the committee: "Apparently they were aimed at trying to make me flunk the test...
...some convalescence. Each day at 10 a.m. he was on the phone to the President and the State Department, keeping abreast of the Suez crisis and the U.S. efforts to keep the Russian "volunteers" out of the Middle East. At 11 o'clock he would knock off to lie on the beach or go fishing; after lunch he would take a nap or go fishing some more. Each evening before dinner Dulles would invite his one Key West assistant, John Hanes Jr., 32, and his wife Lucy, and perhaps his doctor, to his quarters for cocktails...
Reynolds also stated that "the University owns enough property at the present time to build a House without additional acquisition of land." This probably means that the House will lie entirely within the Plympton-Mill-DeWolfe-Mt. Auburn Street block...
...idea-movie, however, these questions might not seem so important. Perhaps, the most striking thing about the movie is the photography. It contrasts the scarred fields and broken buildings of war-time with the prison that is LaGuen's home afterwards. During the war the fields and buildings lie empty about the people, dwarfing them, but in prison the shots are dramatic individual close...
...average goalie in the cage for the Elis, no one could possibly guess what the score would have been. But Yale's Gerry Jones again performed incredibly in the nets, especially in the third period when practically the only defense the exhausted Yale team could throw up was to lie down in front of the net to stop the shots of the Crimson...