Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mann says that the job of the U.S. "is to convince Latin Americans that their interests lie parallel to ours-not because of sentiment, but in their own self-interest. Democracy is a tie in these cases, economics is a tie, and Christianity is another tie." All those things that have been said are half truths. Economics cannot be a tie if the prices of our raw materials continually decrease while the prices of your manufactured goods continually increase. Democracy and the idea of constitutional government cannot be a tie when dictatorships, unfortunately, now govern more than six countries...
...diplomats turned Can over to Big Minh's junta, on the understanding that he would be granted something more than the summary judgment meted out to Diem and Nhu, whose bullet-riddled corpses reportedly lie buried in the courtyard of Saigon's Joint
When he finally does go to bed and tries to sleep, the city dweller has to contend with the incessant noises. Sub urbanites are not much better off, and the remotest home on the range may lie under the path of roaring jet airliners -the same swift giants that carry a man halfway around the world in half a day, and throw his built-in waking-and-sleeping clock out of kilter...
These are the principal characters of The Cincinnati Kid, a new novel by Richard Jessup which explores the world of professional card playing: its drama, its code of ethics, and the emotions which lie behind the deceptively expressionless faces at a poker table...
Gibb plans to divide his time during the next two years between Cambridge, Mass., where he will continue his leadership of the center, and Oxford, England, where he will do research, lie is currently working on a translation with revisions and noted of The Travels of lbn Buttuta, 1325-1359. Gibb, considered the leading scholar in his field in a specialist on the impact of the West on Arab society...