Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beneath the Robe. Inside the church, a teacher screamed, "Lie on the floor! Lie on the floor!" Rafters collapsed, a skylight fell on the pulpit. Part of a stained glass window shattered, obliterating the face of Christ. A man cried: "Everybody out! Everybody out!" A stream of sobbing Negroes stumbled through the litter?past twisted metal folding chairs, past splintered wooden benches, past shredded songbooks and Bibles. A Negro woman staggered out of the Social Dry Cleaning store shrieking "Let me at 'em! I'll kill 'em!"? and fainted. White plaster dust fell gently for a block around...
Much of the 82-item agenda consists of housekeeping chores, budget reports, filling administrative vacancies, etc., but many perennially sticky matters lie ahead. African nations will continue to press for punitive action against Portugal (for its policies in Angola and Mozambique) and South Africa (for apartheid). In fact, before the week was out, more than half of the Assembly-the Afro-Asian bloc plus the Communist nations-walked out when South Africa argued against putting apartheid on the agenda...
Communist officialdom blamed disastrous droughts and freezes for the poor harvest. But Nikita Khrushchev angrily blamed sloppy management for chronic agricultural crises. U.S. farmers, said Nikita, protect their fertilizer in plastic bags, but in Russia the piles of mineral fertilizer shipped out from factories are allowed to lie around in heaps, exposed to the weather. In winter, snorted Nikita, kids slide down the piles on their sleds. Making another of his Utopian promises to catch up with U.S. production, Khrushchev also said that by 1965 Russia hoped to turn out 35 million tons of fertilizer. Though this would equal...
...read a promotional pamphlet for a projected rejuvenation clinic in Nice, France. The blurb intimated that he owed his latter-day powers to the injection of live cells from embryo lambs and calves. Bull, said Charlie. He kept youthful by himself, and that embryo claptrap was a denigrating lie. French courts agreed, upheld Charlie's suit to force withdrawal of the pamphlets...
...admires. He finds little space to discuss the great outward thrust that sent 17th century Englishmen, Frenchmen and Dutchmen around the globe. And although he writes of the statesmen and military leaders who helped shape the age-Cromwell, Marlborough, Peter the Great, Frederick William of Brandenburg-his sympathies lie with that other breed of 17th century men who made "all the motions of matter seem to fall into an order of law and the immensity of the universe seem to obey the predictions of the human mind...