Word: slighted
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Bailey's next expert was Dr. Martin Orne, 48, a psychiatrist at the University of Pennsylvania and a specialist in detecting when a subject is trying to deceive his questioners. Speaking with a slight Viennese accent, Orne said that he had actually tried to lead Patty into giving inaccurate answers to please him. Orne's considered opinion: "Miss Hearst simply did not lie." This flat statement evoked a strenuous objection from Bancroft and led Judge Carter to issue his caution to the jurors that they would have to make up their own minds on that basic issue...
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION. Output of the nation's factories, mines and utilities rose at an annual rate of almost 9% in January. The February figure will probably be even better, because auto production rebounded from a slight dip the month before. For March, Detroit's automakers are scheduling assembly of 823,000 cars-22% more than this month and 69% ahead of March...
...Thanks to heightened industrial activity, the jobless rate fell half a point to 7.8% of the labor force in January. Some 800,000 new workers were added to payrolls, pushing total employment to a near-record 86,194,000. February figures to be released this week may show a slight blip upward in the unemployment rate, partly because of the difficulty of calculating seasonal adjustments, but the trend is clearly down. Indeed, the January figure was already so close to the 7.7% that the Administration had predicted unemployment would average for the whole year as to indicate that that forecast...
...Author Weideger suggests that many of the troubles attributed to menstruation can actually be traced to the taboo. The idea is not new. Some 50 years ago, Anthropologist Margaret Mead observed that in Samoa, where the menstrual taboo is mild, discomfort during periods is slight. The idea of severe cramps and pain, she wrote, "struck all Samoan women as bizarre when it was described to them...
This year, as in '73 and '74, the national intercollegiate title is up for grabs. If Harvard wins, and the Crimson is rated as a slight favorite thanks to the 6-3 upset over Princeton two weeks ago, the championship returns to Cambridge for the 20th time...