Word: lied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investigator, Chambers was led to one room of Suite 1400 in the Commodore. Alger Hiss arrived in the suite's other room at 5:38. He was in a bitter mood. He had been forced to cancel a dinner date; he was furious because the discussion of a lie detector test (which Hiss later refused to take) had leaked out after the secret committee hearings; he was distressed because of the death of Harry White (see below). Said he: "I'm not sure I'm, in the best possible mood for testimony...
...That's a damned lie," howled Huey...
...intentions were toward deflation-just a little deflation. Treasury Secretary John Snyder upped to 1¼% the 1⅛% interest rate on short-term Government bonds. lie expected, rightly, that banks would follow the example and raise interest rates, thereby curbing the inflationary expansion of credit. By midweek, some bankers announced plans to boost basic lending rate from 1¾% to 2% (for borrowers with the highest credit rating) and to adjust other rates accordingly...
...Western world tends to think of the Arab as a falcon-eyed warrior on a white horse. That Arab is still around, but he is far less numerous than the disease-ridden wretches who lie in the hot streets, too weak, sick and purposeless to roll over into the shade...
...final words of the book, spoken between Scobie's wife and his priest, seem to indicate where Author Greene's feelings lie: "Father Rank said, 'It may seem an odd thing to say-when a man's as wrong as he was-but I think, from what I saw of him, that he really loved God.' 'He certainly loved no one else,' she said. 'And you may be in the right of it there, too,' Father Rank replied...