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30 years ago in reason.


"The striking thing about the vast efforts and expenditures of the prosecution was the miserable tidbit of material it used to send Mrs. D'Aquino to jail for 10 years and fine her $10,000. Its vainglorious brandishing of 340 recordings, deflated de·flate  
v. de·flat·ed, de·flat·ing, de·flates

v.tr.
1.
a. To release contained air or gas from.

b. To collapse by releasing contained air or gas.

2.
 to 18, then to 13, to 8, and finally to 6, was then pinched down to a mere 25 words allegedly uttered on a single one!"

--James J. Martin, "The Framing of Tokyo Rose Tokyo Rose: see D'Aquino, Iva Toguri.
Tokyo Rose
 orig. Ikuko Toguri

(born July 4, 1916, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.) U.S. broadcaster. She was visiting Japan when she was stranded at the outbreak of World War II.
"

"As the revelations of Watergate and domestic spying, the repeated falsification falsification /fal·si·fi·ca·tion/ (fawl?si-fi-ka´shun) lying.

retrospective falsification  unconscious distortion of past experiences to conform to present emotional needs.
 of information by the Central Intelligence Agency, and many such abuses of power by government accumulate Accumulate

Broker/analyst recommendation that could mean slightly different things depending on the broker/analyst. In general, it means to increase the number of shares of a particular security over the near term, but not to liquidate other parts of the portfolio to buy a security
, one word has continued to appear as an 'explanation' of these developments--'aberration.' Such an explanation suggests that these are isolated events, and should not be perceived as part of a pattern or process."

--William Marina, "U.S. Interventions: Aberrations or Empire?"

--February 1976
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Title Annotation:Citings
Author:Marina, William
Publication:Reason
Date:Feb 1, 2006
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