Word: lied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answers his audience sought did not seem to lie in the involuted thinking of Henry Wallace's misty theories. Te solve U.S. domestic problems, he had proposed a 10% reduction in prices, increased wages out of the "swollen profit structure." To bridge the widening gap between the U.S. and Russia, he proposed turning U.S. atom bombs over to the U.N. with no strings attached, a ten-year Russian reconstruction program underwritten by the U.S., internationalization of strategic areas...
Hungary, occupied by the Red Army, lies beyond direct reach of U.S. policy. So the Russians decided to consolidate their power before the Red Army withdrew. France and Italy, on the other hand, lie in a world where U.S. economic and political pressure cannot yet be shut off by the Communists. U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall promptly underlined the lesson; he 1) canceled the unused half of a $30,000,000 U.S. credit to Hungary; 2) wished "every success" to Italy's new Red-less Government...
...Interior's political prison), was long a member of the Soviet secret police in Moscow; he knew how to get "confessions." What went on in "No. 60" was revealed in a smuggled letter from one prisoner. "The interrogation was a nightmare," he wrote. "I was allowed to lie down only six hours in two weeks. ... I stood for 20 hours continuously...
...doubt that Billy writes the prose that bears his byline. The column talks like Billy, it mawks like Billy, it has all of Billy's change-rattling eloquence and off-the-arm skill with a gag. Besides, he is far too shrewd to be caught in a whopping lie...
Marchand has found a 14th Century greystone house deep in the Chatillon forest north of Dijon. "It is better to lie down in the grass and regard nature intimately," he has decided, "than to spend your life in ceaseless discussions. To read the blossoms and other arrangements of nature, to touch the wonderful textures of things in the woods, with surfaces as exciting as a woman's skin-you can't find that in a cafe...