Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Milbourne Christopher, a recognized experton Houdini, points out that the key to the Escape King's success was challenge: "His reputation was always on the line." Locksmiths, jailers and packing-box makers all came to test his powers, convinced that they had a lock or a crate that could hold him. He defeated them all, but there was always the possibility that he might fail...
...court or in the stands, back when leather was for whitetrash townie dropouts and all Paris' shirts had a crocodile on the left tit. The days of covert co-optations and a credit to his race. Shanghaied off a street corner on the basis of a high I.Q. test and a higher shooting percentage for his ninth-grade five fixed up with a minority-athletic scholarship and a battery of tutors, and a summer-in-the-country boarding program to instill a taste for the good life, Paris was a fox in the hen house. It was days...
Kerry also stated that a polygraph test administered to the man after he had withdrawn the charge confirmed the charge was false...
...allegations arose last Thursday when a drunken man presented himself to the Somerville police as the mayor's lover. The man later admitted there was no basis to his charge, and Ralph proved his alibi with a polygraph test...
...blacks and women to federal judgeships, and his difficulties with American Jews over his Middle East policies--Hamilton Jordan flew to Los Angeles to help push tickets for a $1000-a-plate dinner headed by Lew Wasserman of MCA two weeks ago, and it's seen as a big test of his approval...