Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discrediting the U.S. presence by a major, one-shot victory. But that might well prove suicidal tor the Viet Cong have discovered that these days a mass assault all too easily turns into an avalanche of airborne bullets, napalm and bombs. Or they might simply fade away to lie low, Br'er Rabbit fashion, in the hope that sooner or later the U.S. would get weary of waiting and go back home...
...probability that although some voices in Britain were calling for British troops, a vast segment of British public opinion would protest the use of tommies to put down an Anglo-Saxon insurrection (Britain has not gone in for that sort of thing since 1776). Instead, what seemed to lie ahead was economic reprisals: the freezing of Rhodesia's sterling deposits, ejection from the Commonwealth and its tariff protection, trade boycotts or embargoes. All of which did not seem to bother former Finance Minister Smith. Indeed, despite the vulnerability of Rhodesia's $50-million-a-year tobacco trade with...
...commandment from the Lord, although Biblical critics believe that the custom originated as a primitive means of crop rotation. "For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield," God ordered Moses in Exodus. "But the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow." Normally, Israel's substantial minority of Orthodox Jews transfer their property through the chief rabbinate to an accommodating Arab. Because of pressure from religious parties, the Israeli government ordered the rabbinate to sell all public lands as well for the duration of Shemittah. During the sabbatical year, Abdullah thus will...
...point that it becomes coercive -- when students lie down on the tracks to block a troop train -- protest changes from essential ingredients to something alien to the liberal tradition," he said...
Assuming the role of massiah with evient relish. Leary painted a bright picture of the future of research along the lines he favors. "The solutions to man's problems lie in the control and expansion of consciousness," he said, "and not in filling our garages with motorboats...