Word: lied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First off, the Village still looks immensely like the Army hospital it once was. Thirty-three miles lie between it and Cambridge, which means almost three hours of commuting each day and $17.95 out of the family exchequer each month. And the rents are thought by everyone to be too high...
...bluff Secretary General Trygve Lie patted the earnest, scholarly delegates on the back, praised "the spirit of agreement that I have found in this council." But he worried because U.N. agencies were using paper at the rate of 1,000,000 sheets a day to produce tentative findings and recommendations which might never get beyond the paper stage...
Practices will run daily from 3 to 5 o'clock, and Samborski expressed hope that those who turn out today will report daily, so that their equipment will not lie unused...
...would lie down...
...nuclear fission. . . . The next phase may be atomic warfare . . . but it is conceivable that we have enough sense [to confine ourselves] to a period, not indeed of peace, but of . . . only partially ruinous warfare. . . . During that period the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie...