Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly doubled, from 36 million tons a year to 63.8 million tons in fiscal 1963. The U.S. has widened and deepened the old channels. But the three intricate sets of double locks are still unable to accommodate more than 50 to 60 vessels a day-and ships sometimes lie to for 15 hours or more awaiting their turn. Within ten years the present canal would be one big traffic...
...going to wind up." Such uncertainty has convinced many lawyers that preconceived theories are almost worthless. "Generally speaking," says Harold R. Medina, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, "it's impossible to learn much about a man by questioning him. Prospective jurors lie like hell...
...morality play adapted from Howard Fast's novel The Winston Affair. Mitchum plays Mitchum with laconic assurance, and a cast of veteran character actors is warmed up for a first-rate courtroom drama, a la Caine Mutiny, that only makes it to second. Some of the fault must lie with Director Guy Hamilton, who borrows his pace from those fans that whir lazily overhead in every tropical sinkhole. But justice triumphs, and the made-in-England script gives the saving final testimony to Trevor Howard (so rational, so decent, so British). Thus Man tosses off its message with...
...such noises shattered the sleep of the pioneers a century or more ago. But the tire screech of a hard-braked auto mobile is probably no more disturbing than the howl of a timber wolf rallying the pack. And no American today need lie awake worrying whether the soft fluting of a small owl is really the signal that a band of Indians is closing in for a scalping spree...
...every businessman knows, litigation of commercial quarrels can be agonizingly slow and annoyingly expensive. In many U.S. cities it takes months or years to bring a suit to trial; beyond that lie the delays of appeal. Meanwhile, costs pile up and claims remain unpaid. There is many a program for speeding up justice but reform, too, moves slowly...