Word: lied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difference between right & wrong than it does today. Stalin built an empire of a kind that Victoria could not have visualized even in her nightmares; he forged Marx's foggy philosophy into an iron knife with which to carve the earth; and he swamped mankind with an organized lie that, in the minds of millions, made white mean black, war mean peace, and good mean evil. There was not a king or a rich man, a shoemaker or a peasant wife who was not touched by Stalin's power, and who on his birthday did not bear...
Said Francesco Mauri at nearby Cutro: "This land will be ours as soon as it is cleared, or we will lie dead upon it. They may kill us, but we won't leave the land...
Some big problems must still be licked. One is the lack of water needed for refining. All big U.S. shale deposits lie in the most arid sections of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. Another problem is the question of ash disposal: more than a ton of ash is piled up for every barrel of oil produced...
This loyalty procedure cannot even effectively screen out potential traitors: an agent of a "Communist, Facist, or totalitarian" power would lie his way through the Navy's test without compunction. An honest man, however, might be caught up because of an incident in his past, and the country thus deprived of his services...
...past was erased, wrote Orwell, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth...