Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midnight they reached the quicklimed corpse of Sir Roger Casement,* wrapped it in sacking, and placed it gently in a wooden coffin. Before his 1916 execution as a traitor, Casement's last request was: "When they have done with me, don't let my bones lie in this dreadful place. Take me back to Ireland and let me lie there." In a long-delayed but gracious gesture, Prime Minister Harold Wilson granted Casement's dying wish...
...South Vietnam and the bombings of North Vietnam have precipitated a crisis in United States foreign policy. What direction should future American policy take? The answer must lie in an analysis of the forces in conflict...
...with the required courses outside the area of concentration; and our proposals add up to a somewhat simplified and liberalized version of the present plan. These seem to us, however, to meet only a part of the needs of a General Education program at Harvard Today. The real needs lie in the area of teaching, not of curiculum, and will never be met by a system of course requirements. More attention must be given to the teaching of individuals and small groups where the student learns at the same time to think and to express himself in speech and writing...
...through Colombia. In the preliminary talks, the top men in Nicaragua and Costa Rica, as well as Colombia's Guillermo Leon Valencia, were anxious to negotiate. The U.S. is not presenting Panama with any ultimatums, but it hopes that the country will soon decide where its true interests lie...
...white knight, the matchmaker, and the childlike philosopher, is Countess Aurelie, Ghailot's elderly madwoman. While sitting at a Parisian cafe, Aurelie overhears a company president, a baron, and a prospector discussing plans to tap the seas of oil that, they are sure, lie under Paris's streets. The Countess is at first natively ignorant of the uses of oil, but when she learns of the industrialists' evil lust for power, and is told how oil can give them that power, she crushes them, madly. She tries them, in absentia, condemns them, and executes them by luring all the advocates...