Word: lying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rough as last week's revelations were on NASA, tougher times may lie ahead. The Rogers commission has scheduled for this week two days of public hearings at which key officials involved in the launch decision, as well as some of the experts who opposed the go-ahead, are expected to testify. Predicted one source close to the commission: "There will be a hanging." That assessment may be too harsh, but clearly the full story of why Challenger and its crew had been sent on a doomed mission remains to be told...
Smith's research, conducted between 1969 and 1981, concludes that the adolescents who go on to drink, smoke and take drugs as teen-agers and young adults are usually impulsive, pessimistic, unambitious, extroverted and have poor study habits. They also admit a willingness to lie, cheat and hurt others...
...deeply of synthetic gin and romping with an anonymous beauty over house roofs and down some stairs or other, to roll on the grass in a nearby park." On the procedure itself: "The man, whose face looked like soiled marzipan, said he was going to give me an anesthetic; lie still . . . This he inserted in me, letting loose a flood of icy water, the anesthetic whose effects lasted a few seconds...
...small, borrowed apartment in Jerusalem where Anatoli and Avital Shcharansky are staying bears a striking resemblance to the cluttered flats in the Soviet Union where dissidents once congregated. Folders of correspondence and masses of newspaper clippings lie scattered about--some of the detritus of Avital's ceaseless nine-year campaign to rouse world opinion on her husband's behalf. Gifts and congratulatory messages are displayed on every available surface: a silver kiddush cup from a Jewish congregation in New York, a crayon drawing by a child that shows a flourishing green tree and Israeli flag. Floating on the ceiling...
Such acts as writing protest letters were a crucial element in his struggle for survival. Another was his reading of Psalms, which he recited from memory in the punishment cells, where all books were forbidden. While there he had no opportunity to lie down during the day, and at night a wood-and-metal board was put in his cell for sleeping. "Of course, there are no blankets and no warm clothes," he says. The menu: black bread one day, followed by a day of "very poor" hot food. "This went on for 30 and sometimes 40 consecutive days." While...