Word: lied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Partly we are quitting because we want to take a long, long vacation. We want to become a sort of lotus eater, at least for a while. We want to see all the warm, azure seas and lie beside them on the white sands. We want to travel to all the continents and to most all of the countries. We want to sleep late or get up early, without compulsion to do either. ... we want to loaf and travel as long as it amuses...
...definite shape-yesterday, as the 11 nations of the Security Council jockeyed for positions on the Anglo-Egyptian dispute over the presence of British troops on the Nile River. Two Egyptian demonstrators, who previously had disturbed the Council's sessions, were barred from further proceedings by Secretary-General Trygve Lie...
...children alone." Summerhill is Britain's most progressive school. At his school ("That dreadful School," he likes to call it), there is no discipline, except for such rules as the children lay down in their weekly meetings. The children are permitted to swear, steal, smash things up, masturbate, lie, play hookey or do anything else that, in Schoolmaster Neill's judgment, will rid them of inhibitions. At Summerhill, "inhibitions" are a prime preoccupation. Discipline, Neill believes, is "a substitute for a knowledge of children...
...patient diggers of the American School of Classical Studies last week finished their twelfth season of rooting into ancient Athens. They had concentrated on the Agora, or central public square, one of the oldest continually inhabitated spots on earth. Beneath the Agora, history and prehistory lie in deep-stacked layers. All the great trends in civilization have touched this enchanted area, as they are touching...
...world." His chapters on New Haven in the early 1900s explore the functions of the college, where, by his estimate, little education was given or gained, and the plight of the faculty which "never, so far as we know, got drunk, swore, fornicated, swindled, never did anything except lie, play politics and be mean...