Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Real Independence." In Algiers itself, meanwhile, militiamen loyal to the Politburo surged out of hiding and seized control of the casbah in rooftop fighting. From Oran, where lie had fled four days earlier to avoid arrest by Wilaya 4 troops, Ahmed ben Bella slipped into Algiers, dressed in woman's clothing. There, in return for a ceasefire, Rebel Leader Colonel Hassan agreed to evacuate the city and to confine his routed, discredited forces to one of the suburbs...
...Street, How Come You Do Me Like You Do?), he hopes to become a smash political hit with a platform plugging $100-a-month pensions for every Nevada resident over 65, to be financed by boat-race sweepstakes on Nevada lakes. He also urges that all the candidates take lie-detector tests to see if they will keep their promises...
...flat, open country within the city's northern boundary, the land to the west is checkered with brown wheatfields and lush, green, potato gardens. Eastward stretches a no-man's land where once fertile fields lie desolate and deathly still. They could be in two different worlds-and, in a sense, they are. Even the countryside outside Berlin is divided into East and West by a vicious, impenetrable hedge of rusty barbed wire and concrete. As itsnakes southward toward the partitioned city, it becomes the Wall...
Their apologies only masked a darker, more important failure-the cloying, pervasive inability to understand her-or any other complicated soul-the lie of grabbing belated responsibility where none had ever existed. Marilyn was never more than Hollywood's plaything, when she might have been its lesson and its guide. What things she had to say were never heard because her voice was a dog whistle in a town accustomed to brass bands. Her misery was less the price of living up to an image too big for her than living down the reflections of her own abysmal past...
...continues to hold business conferences at lunch in the M.I.T. cafeteria, and avoids board meetings whenever he can. Weekends, he uses his own underwater sonic pinger for a scientist's hobby: probing Boston's Charles River for an 800-year-old Viking ship that he believes may lie on the bottom...