Word: lied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Similarly, co-directors Roy Erickson and Burt Kelsey have far too often permitted the actors to stand in awkward groups in the canter of the stage. If more imagination had been exerted, more realistic and fluid action could undoubtedly have been devised, but again the basic difficulty seems to lie in the play itself, which handicaps the director by substituting pseudo-eloquence for drama...
...Council of Harvard views with deep apprehension the discordant relations between the Soviet Union and the United States, and the consequent effects upon the efforts of the United Nations to make the peace secure. . . . May we take the liberty of urging that you meet with President Truman and Trygve Lie in the hope that the mediation of international authority may best promote the resolution of current difficulties...
Twenty years ago such a bloomer would have raised a Grade A scandal. But today, in the era of the Big Lie, the collapse of Protocol M was rather like the bursting of a bubble-gum balloon. One reason was that, even if Protocol M was itself a forgery, its contents squared with probable Communist aims and tactics. But Sulzberger put his finger on another, bigger reason: "This incident is characteristic of one phase of the present-day nervousness and suspicion in Europe. A network of forgers and falsifiers-some clever and some not-are busily peddling allegedly secret documents...
Most U.S. correspondents were in the Astor Hotel and they had a grandstand view of the fighting, in which 300 died. Cabled TIME Correspondent Tom Dozier: "Outside the hotel lie the bodies of two men and one woman who climbed atop one of the tanks that moved through the mob to defend the Presidential Palace. Government riflemen lying prone in the street popped them off at short range. One fell beneath the tank's treads and his head was crushed. It is not a pretty sight...
Careful exploitation of the Faculty suggestion, plus Yard concerts this spring and even room-to-room canvassing for trip money next term, can provide at least the minimum $10,000 estimated as necessary for normal operation in the fall. In the advertising campaign must lie the hope of raising enough for an eventual trip abroad...