Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line. Their country has asked them to take on the task of keeping its commitment to our neighbors across the Pacific. The price is very high. The actual cost is evidenced by the freshly turned turf in Arlington and the crowded wards of our military hospitals. In these places lie the quiet ones-the givers. We never hear from them because they are not vocal. We hear only from the selfish who are unwilling to see their country through another trying period. These folks with back trouble are not new to the American scene. We heard them in the early...
...thought he is dancing on. They are all theatrical ideas, perhaps excessively so. Pirandello is his playwrighting godfather, and all of Pinter's plays could be subtitled "Right You Are, If You Think You Are." Like Pirandello, he believes that illusion is infinite and that truth and reality lie in the eye of the beholder. He assumes that situation dominates character, so that in a different situation the person would be different. Instead of motivation, which implies continuity of personality, Pinter's characters harbor a potential for violence. In a sense, they are socio-historical dropouts: except...
...will be a matter of interest to psychoanalytic historians what little Lyndon Johnson said to his mother when she perched him on her knee and told him gravely, "Once you begin to lie, you never know when to stop." In any case, it seems clear that the little tyke took his mother's words as a challenge, not a warning...
...fire their artillery at Con Thien on a random schedule to keep the Marines guessing when the next bombardment or the lone round of explosives will crunch into the camp. "Those single rounds are the most dangerous," says a young Marine. "But the barrages wear you down. You just lie there shaking and saying 'Please, Christ, just get me out of this...
...have often said, and I repeat tonight, my conviciton that the answer does not lie in creating additional judge power. To be sure, as our population continues to grow and the total litigation increases substantially, new judges will be needed. It has been our experience in the federal system, howver, that merely adding more judges does not serve to eliminate or even seriously diminish backlogs which have been accumulating over a period of years...