Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often happens, the key to a compromise may lie with the Soviets, whose position is not yet totally clear. Moscow has a few choices. By joining the boycott, the Kremlin would improve relations with black Africa, gaining ground on Communist China, which can't compete anyway. On the other hand, Moscow could use its influence to torpedo the boycott, hoping to gain more from the prestige of Olympic victories than from the benefits of the boycott. As a third possibility, and not completely out of character, the Soviets could strike a compromise by continuing their denunciation of the South Africans...
...benefit. It simply does not do things for the people. It does not build highways or schools or hospitals; it does not try to improve agricultural methods or encourage industry; it does not give care to the young or the aged. Projects undertaken with AID money lie abandoned...
Harvard's scoring strength will lie where it has all year--in the distance races...
...Mail has piled up undelivered in the post offices, weeks late. The city's hospitals are so crowded that only emergency cases are accepted, and even then the newcomer will probably have to share his bed with another patient or sleep on the floor. Coffins lie unburied for days because of a lack of gravediggers. Practically all the schools are still closed, and children either clog the streets while at play or are kept indoors by nervous, anxious parents...
...formal ethic evolves, but of course you do not lie to patients, you do keep your problems, you do keep your appointments. Furthermore, since patients are very sensitive to their own feelings--not so much to yours--they do not necessarily respond to your wishes but they do sense immediately whether you are telling the truth and whether you are afraid. If they feel this, they immediately withdraw...