Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coast Guard conducted its investigation last week, the mystery seemed to lie less in the fact that the Sulphur Queen had disappeared than in wonderment about how it had ever managed to put to sea in the first place...
...have no unions with compulsory arbitration. The arbitrator don't know nothing about your union or the business or what's wrong. He throws one side a crumb and the other a piece of bread, or maybe the other way around. The truth don't lie in the middle of anything. The truth is the truth...
...these issues lie not only the clues to public reaction against Powers and his printers, but the growing national dissatisfaction with Big Labor itself. For "job security" has become labor's watchword. In 1961 (the last year on which statistics are available), there were 250 strikes in which job security was a central issue. It is a crucial issue in the aerospace industry. The argument over the size of work gangs brought on the recent East Coast dock strike. The job-security issue last year caused flight engineers to strike against the airlines, and job security is a cause...
...murder. "I felt confident that I could not lose the case even if I conducted it standing on my head," recalls Joshua David Casswell, who was the prosecutor in the court proceedings that followed. But to Casswell's chagrin, Loughan dismissed his confession as the kind of casual lie he enjoyed telling the police, claimed he spent the night of the murder sheltered from the blitz in London's Warren Street subway station-and produced five independent witnesses to prove it. "This is the most extraordinary case I've ever known," said the judge...
Schlesinger says "the difference between the two groups is probably at bottom a difference in temperament." He adds that the emotional origins of contemporary radical thought "lie in a profound dislike for what the critics regard as a suffocating consensus blanketing American life--a consensus which most of them trace to a refusal to confront the implications of nuclear...