Word: lied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Considine said that the Revision Committee is not in direct opposition to that appointed by Campbell, and its desires lie "not in impeding the Student Council's proposals but in aiding and abetting their task...
...president and the self-perpetuating board of six trustees, known as the Fellows (or Corporation), who really run Harvard. The Corporation's interests lie with what Boston calls State Street, though more of them are lawyers than bankers. Subjected to the pressures of this predominantly conservative group, President Conant has seemed to some critics to become less outspokenly liberal in recent years...
...Matson Navigation Co. said sadly: "We followed the rules of collective bargaining. We arrived at what seemed a fair deal. Now we are caught between the Wagner Act and the WSB, like getting caught in gunfire between the door and the bar. About all we can do is lie down on the floor...
About all the public could do was lie down on the floor too. A faltering WSB got ready to meet again this week, figure out some way to get Johnny back on his ship and straighten out this latest venture in Government control. No one had any solution to this strike against the Government but to give in to Johnny...
...coffee market that introduced the word "valorization" to the world in 1906. Today, after 40 years of valorizing, bargaining, spoiling land and burning crops, a few coffee merchants and Government officials are comfortably rich -and 90% of the population is as poor as ever. Millions of tons of coffee lie in warehouses. Thousands of acres of coffee land have been abandoned to armies of ants, to small-scale farms, to be worked by the children of slaves, who have so lost their talent for farming that they use pointed sticks and wooden hoes in place of plows...