Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reds evened the score. This time they hit the rice-rich Camau Peninsula, traditionally Communist-controlled territory where government enclaves are only islands in a sea of Viet Cong. The plan was a clever two-pronged attack against the two government-held cities of Cai Nuoc and Damdoi, which lie 15 miles apart on the southernmost tip of Viet Nam. To confuse government reinforcements and to hamper their speedy arrival, the Viet Cong first feinted at three neighboring outposts, sowed mines on a major road over which government troops had to travel, and poured harassing mortar fire...
...schools will need high spirits-and more. For back of last week's optimism lie all the system's old problems and some serious new ones...
...parody of crackerbarrel conservatism, was based on a profound belief in smallness and a conviction that life must be lived on a level deeper than anything within the ken of group action. "Beyond the participation of the politicians and beyond the relief of senates," he wrote eloquently to Untermeyer, "lie our sorrows." But Frost also was aware of how much he had staked on sticking to the caricature personality he had partly invented and partly evolved for himself-the curmudgeonly egocentric country poet who always thinks for himself and is always right...
...vision with realism"), and from De Gaulle, who acknowledged "the high conscience with which he served." At week's end, with no orations (at his request), Robert Schuman's funeral service in the Metz Cathedral was attended by five former French Premiers.*Eventually his body is to lie in a special mausoleum-to be built facing eastward across the Rhine...
Restrict the Truth. Nechaev's distinction lies in the fact that his brief life exemplified the basic paradox at the heart of Communism's claims on the human spirit. "Beginning with the ideal of absolute freedom, you arrive at the necessity of absolute tyranny," was Nechaev's sinister aphorism. In these terms he invented the conception of a revolutionary elite, above all moral law because it acted in the name of "the people." He proclaimed the abstract virtue of the "party" above all claims of kin or human obligation, and-generations before it had become a commonplace...