Word: detector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...angrily addressed Chairman Otis Pike, a Democrat from New York. "Do something," he demanded, to stanch the leaks that were discrediting the committee with its friends in Congress as well as its foes in the Administration. With an irate glare, Pike shot back: "What do you recommend? Lie detector tests? I do not know where the leaks have come from...
...Crofwell, 28, testified that Berg made a pass at him last year in Italy. Berg denied the charge. While admitting homosexual acts with three civilian males during the past seven years-plus heterosexual activity-Berg denied having sex with anyone in the armed forces, and called for a lie detector test to prove it. Berg does not advocate blanket acceptance of "blatant" homosexuals or bisexuals, but thinks he should be judged solely on his competence as a naval officer and his ability to keep his sex life separate...
...officials also swarmed on board the luxury liner, which was in berth undergoing some repairs prior to a Caribbean cruise, and began a stem-to-stern search for more explosives. They forced open crew members' lockers and sampled the air from dozens of compartments with a sophisticated explosive detector known as a "gas chromatography" machine. The QE 2 was clea−her 1,176 closely searched passengers left on schedule Thursday for their holiday−but Scotland Yard's bomb squad will clearly continue monitoring her comings and goings with considerably more than casual interest...
...were part of the group, were apparently beaten after their arrest, and they soon pleaded guilty. Once behind bars, though, they persisted in claiming they were innocent. Three years later while the two were still on death row at the state prison in Raiford, a lie detector expert working on a different case got a taped confession to the Port St. Joe murders from Curtis Adams Jr., a white man who had already been convicted of another murder. Pulitzer-prizewinning Reporter Gene Miller of the Miami Herald began an investigation that helped win a new trial for Pitts...
...Adams refused to repeat his confession on the stand, the tape made by the lie detector expert was barred as hearsay evidence, and the all-white jury took only 90 minutes to find Pitts and Lee guilty of murder all over again. They would have been convicted, said a shaken defense attorney, even "if the Twelve Apostles testified for them." Refusing to give up, Miller* and others continued to fight until Governor Reubin Askew agreed to order a new investigation a year and a half ago. Askew personally participated in part of the inquiry and sent his legal aide...