Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elevator operators, the wheat cannot move fast enough. Bumper harvests have gorged Midwestern elevators, and millions of bushels of corn and sorghum have just been dumped on the ground. In Hannibal, Mo., the corn is higher than an elephant's eye. Smack in the middle of lower Broadway lie 57,304 bushels of corn in a pile two stories high. The U.S. has lately sold corn to Hungary. Would Russia like some...
...Hunter's difficulties lie deeper than the subway tubes. Faculty and students agree that the college's entire structure needs overhauling. They complain about the heavy general education requirements, for the battery of compulsory courses includes art, music and physical education. By requiring a minor as well as a major field, Hunter makes flexible programming extraordinarily difficult...
Either they had forgotten or been detained (which ought to strike even Julie as implausible) or they had been plain-lying, and then why would they lie? If she were lazy or frightened enough, she just might accept the first explanation, hollow as it would sound. She might avoid the real problem (why did they lie?) as lesser people than she avoid so much by not seeing the Negro. And she might avoid it indefinitely if whatever she were running from in the North were sufficiently terrible, end up lying blatantly to herself and only step up the volume...
...were honest, she just might just try to figure out why it was that the Negroes had lied to her, and perhaps, sudden-like, she might see that it was the same old thing: White folks in this country have been demanding that Negroes lie to them for a long time. The lie and its anticipated consequence, a slight but noticeable and sometimes crucial lifting of the hob-nailed boot from a black neck, formed a principle of existence for a whole lot of people long before the Fathers signed their ambiguous document and still does. If you act white...
There are many people, however, who have decided that their vocation must lie in some visual field. These people have little choice at Harvard but to major in Fine Arts. The curriculum rarely satisfies them. In the first place, they complain, Harvard's Fine Arts courses encourage a verbal, rather than visual, appreciation of art. There is too much emphasis on merely collecting and spouting back the material presented in lectures and far too little on actually looking at the works discussed. Students are not trained to see. They learn about paintings and statues as historical events, not as unique...