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Word: lied (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sentence startled me: "Certainly, police should not be responsible for carting drunks to jail-one-third of all arrests." I am wondering what you propose to do with the drunks? Leave them lie to be rolled by other nighttime characters? Leave them lie to become sick? Leave them lie as an unsightly and disgusting sight for sober citizens? I realize that my thinking (based on over twenty years as a Village Justice) is not on all fours with the current thinking on how to cure alcoholism. Perhaps it is a disease but I have "dried out" many an alcoholic with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 18, 1968 | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

Rising in the Rockies and meandering listlessly through four states, the silt-strangled Arkansas River has brought devastating floods and fascinating legends to the hapless people along its banks, but not much else. Boatmen in the 1840s stopped near Conway to soak up liquor and lie in the sun until they swelled like toads, giving Toadsuck Ferry its name. At Dwight Mission, the Cherokee sage, Sequoyah, developed his syllabary in 1828, providing a written Indian language. Now Toadsuck Ferry is gone, replaced by a bridge, and Dwight Mission lies under the waters of a reservoir. Both are victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rivers: Unlocking the Arkansas | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...date Jan. 1, 1969. The place: the Rose Bowl, in Pasadena, Calif. The teams: Purdue (probable champions of the Big Ten) and Southern California (favorites to lead the Pacific Eight conference). That game, if it does take place, will probably decide the national championship. But the real drama will lie in the competition between the two most colorful players in college football: Purdue's Leroy Keyes, 21, and Southern Cal's Orenthal James Simpson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Countdown to Pasadena | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

NIXON has not had to lie to be devious. He has just kept silent on the pretext that he is afraid of jeopardizing the Paris peace talks...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, | Title: Straight Talk | 9/28/1968 | See Source »

...gets easier and easier to fool yourself. We all teach our eyes to lie to us about what they see. But ink isn't oil, paper isn't canvas, a dollar-fifty print isn't Rembrandt. Sometimes it seems worth it to care about what is real. And it will grow on you by January...

Author: By Betsy Nadas, | Title: Art Shopping? | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

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