Word: lied
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With the passage of time, U.S. dead of World War II have become a part of the foreign soil in which they lie. But last week President Truman signed a bill under which the remains of the fallen will be returned to the U.S. for reburial if the next of kin so request. Exhumation and shipping will be at Government expense; so will reinterment, if it is in a national cemetery...
...will be an immense and grisly task, for 261,000* now lie in 356 cemeteries on four continents and countless Pacific islands. War Department estimates that up to 70% of the next of kin will ask for the return of remains are based largely on experience after World War I. There had been opposition to the move then, as when Theodore Roosevelt said of his son Quentin, "Where the tree falls, let it lie." There was opposition also to the new and greater march of the dead, both from servicemen (who believed that $200 million could be better spent...
...Theodore Roosevelt Jr. declared that she wished the remains of her husband (Quentin's brother) to lie at Ste. Mère-Eglise in Normandy. Said Mrs. George S. Patton: "I feel soldiers should stay where they fall. . . . General Patton . . . would always have wanted to have been buried with his men." Mrs. Simon Bolivar Buckner, whose husband was killed in action at Okinawa, expressed the same thought. So did Mrs. Clara Jane Hawkins, mother of the Marine lieutenant for whom Tarawa's airfield is named, and the young widow of another Marine hero, Sergeant John Basilone who died...
...Trygve Lie, idle-hour moose-hunter and tennist, improved a rare idle hour with a doubles match at Forest Hills, L.I. U.N.'s burly Secretary General made a stout try (see cut), but the opposition carried more weight. Score over Lie & partner...
...Part II events move downward, and the drama becomes muffled and intermittent. Hotspur lies slain by Hal; the rebels are betrayed and broken; guilt-laden Henry, who had usurped Richard II's crown, sickens and dies; Falstaff roisters now without his Prince, "Who-when he becomes his King-brutally dismisses him. Only for Hal does glory lie ahead...