Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taking the Plunge. If Lyndon Johnson is to contend successfully with the many problems that confront him, his first task is to regain full mastery of the levers of power and the instruments of opinion making that lie at his disposal as President. His long absence from the White House has removed him from the mainstream, and this week's State of the Union address-usually a President's most important in any given year-will indicate how ready he is to plunge back in. When he is fully ready, his first and most important order of business...
Proctor said of the outcome that under the circumstances, unnecessary roughness and discourtesy were the only indisputable violations. When asked whether he planned to press the case any further, Proctor said that getting a jury trial was next to impossible, and that he would let the case lie...
...fundamental difference between Christianity and Communism now, says Garaudy, does not lie in their objectives but in their point of departure-the church starts with God, Marxism with man. Now that both are moving beyond the age of enmity, they should discuss the possibility of a common attack on problems of social injustice. The Christian aspirations for man, he insists, are shared by Communism, which "seeks to realize man's most lofty hopes. The future of man will not be constructed either against religious believers or without them. The future of man cannot be built either against the Communists...
...school girls; just across the Potomac in Virginia, state law prohibits any public school sex instruction. Even among communities that think sex is a fit classroom subject, there is no unanimity of approach; some teach blunt physiology, with pictures; some tiptoe around the topic; some scare kids and even lie to them; a few regard sex as primarily a moral issue...
With nothing left but cash and courage, Dilke grimly continued the fight. During the next decade a committee established to investigate the case produced evidence which strongly suggests that Mrs. Crawford's story was a lie from beginning to end. In fact, says Jenkins, Mrs. Crawford had an affair with a certain Captain Forster, from whom she had contracted syphilis. Unable to continue her marriage without disclosing her condition, Mrs. Crawford cynically decided to get both Dilke and a divorce in one fell swoop...