Word: lied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back the Saar, remilitarized the Rhine, took Austria and the Sudetenland, they always took pains to make out some sort of a case for themselves which an ever diminishing group of friends in the outside world was more or less willing to accept. Last week the treaty-breaking, lie-telling German Dictator had few friends left anywhere outside his and Italy's borders and along with the last shreds of his nation's honor he threw away all pretense of being anything but a Conqueror. Instead of trying to think up further fancy excuses for aggression, in Berlin...
...alternatives for Germany's future: "Hitler may lie down and digest for a bit--he's sailed pretty close to the wind, you know ... or, what I'm most afraid of is that Germany may be like a man on a bicycle if he stops moving he'll have to jump off." Also, he said, the Nazis would face an intolerable situation if they have to "jump off" because of the difficulty in converting their nation from a wartime to a peacetime economy...
Should Mr. Shields be so unfortunate as to fracture his hip, lie in a hospital eight weeks, flat on his back in a Bradford frame, leg being stretched by ropes and pulleys and weights, said leg being held immobile by a yard-long sandbag on either side, an alert physician and a bevy of nurses standing by like eagle-eyed engineers, he will learn that one may be kept from "tossing about in the throes of sleep" until he may hatch out a whole dozen eggs "scrambling" nary a one, and no "marvel" at all. "This astonishing muscular control" will...
...Building last week, curiously tucked away in a maze of advertising exhibits of home furnishings, a little gallery of architectural photographs made browsers perk up. To most features of the Home Beautiful, exemplified in the exhibit by a tasteless miscellany stuffed in fake "modern" interiors, these pictures gave the lie direct. They showed the actual and honestly beautiful buildings of an extraordinary architect, Antonin Raymond of Japan...
...autobiographical, that Melville's South Seas period (1841-1845)-source of his most lasting books-was far more joyous than he later made out. Melville's turn to allegory, he says, was a literary mistake, aided and abetted by Boston and Manhattan intellectuals. Hawthorne, who used to lie in the hay talking with Melville about time and destiny, characterized Melville's metaphysics as enough to "compel a man to swim for his life...