Word: lied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andrei Gromyko said yes, he would attend the Security Council session that afternoon. Instead, he rode in a black Cadillac through three miles of New York streets. His change of venue might have been a wise one, for the great question before Gromyko and his Russian colleagues did not lie in the Council room, or in the phrases of the UNO Charter, or in Iran. The streets and fields of the U.S. held the answer they sought. From where the Russians sat, the riddle was: would the U.S., over the next few decades, be able to make its policy felt...
...important part of the plan is that the Authority's plants for producing "dangerous" uranium or plutonium would, like the know-how of the bomb, ultimately be distributed with equality among all important nations. "The real protection," said the five, "will lie in the fact that if any nation seizes the plants or the stockpiles that are situated in its territory, other nations [besides receiving clear warning] will have similar facilities and materials situated within their own borders so that the act of seizure need not place them at a disadvantage...
Local time is based on the sun's position in relation to 24 "standard" meridians which lie at intervals of approximately 15° longitude around the earth. Thus when the sun is directly overhead at Greenwich, G.C.T. and local time are both 12 o'clock noon. At the same instant it is 7 a.m. local time-Eastern Standard-in New York, but the chronometer of a ship in the harbor will read - with corrections - 12h oom oos G.C.T., though the sun may be only just rising. The Court's suggestion: substitute the 24 letters of the Latin...
...chief social function was that of hunter, but Raven is not a success at the job. He prefers to lie under a tree and scratch. It is Raven's bad luck to live in a woman's world, run by women for women. Grandmother screams, "Get up," kicks him on the side of the skull. Grandmother also cooks the food, plants the crops. Her daughters (Raven's sisters) bear offspring after exposure to the moon and the rain, seldom allow Raven to share their...
...native plants have started to come back and this results in a gorgeous flood of purple morning-glories-it reminds me of a little old cemetery in the U.S. which is mellow and not closely pruned. I can't think of a righter place for my husband to lie...