Word: detector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...later, Hongisto described in detail six abuses, among them an allegation that the mayor had obstructed his efforts to clean up the vice squad. Cried Kucinich: "He's concocting these stories so he can exit as a hero." Hongisto then proposed that he and the mayor take lie-detector tests. Kucinich refused. Said he: "I may be dealing with a fellow who is pathological. His own lie-detector results would not be conclusive...
True, it would be easy to exaggerate the importance of this insight, but the effort should be made. After all, a surefire way to penetrate even the most obscure jokes would be a blessing to any era. And in this time, a humor-detector promises to provide the precise guide that is the very thing Americans need...
...nearly two weeks to report that Mrs. Brach was missing. During that time, he says, he summoned her brother Charles Vorhees, a retired railroad worker, to the estate, where they burned two of Mrs. Brach's diaries and her psychic writings. Finally, police say, Matlick flunked two lie-detector tests when asked, "Do you know where Mrs. Brach...
Haldeman portrays himself as continually giving "active encouragement" to the "good" side of Nixon and treating the "bad" side with "benign neglect." As chief of staff, Haldeman says, he often ignored "petty, vindictive" orders from Nixon (such as one to give mass lie detector tests to employees of the State Department as a means of finding security leaks). Haldeman now regrets that he did not challenge Nixon more "frontally" to check his dark impulses. But he also notes wryly that other Nixon associates who had done so, including HEW Secretary Robert Finch and Communications Director Herbert Klein, quickly lost influence...
...outguessing the competition in order to make bids for oil leases as low as possible, yet still win them. The Canadian suit named Arne R. Nielsen, president of Mobil Oil Canada, who was well versed in highly classified and arcane Mobil technology, including its airborne radar propane seep detector and computer graphics modeling system...