Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deliberately kept low. Johnson is disturbed by his precipitous plunge in popularity (43% in the latest Lou Harris Poll). Though he himself ascribes this to the normal vicissitudes of U.S. politics, he and his advisers have agreed that his wisest course of action may be to continue to lie low for the time being; in 1966, he spent some 90 days in relative seclusion along the Pedernales River...
...Stop Firing!" The Minh Quy hospital, supported by several small Roman Catholic charities, is now a complex of six whitewashed buildings that are almost as overcrowded as the old dispensary. For its 40 beds there are 120 patients; fortunately, many of them actually prefer to lie on mats on the floor or on porches outside the buildings. There are no minor illnesses. "When a Montagnard comes in from his village," says Dr. Smith, "we take it for granted that he's malnourished, mostly from protein deficiency, that he has intestinal parasites and also malaria. After that, we ask what...
When the Now People go on the offensive, they break out three very effective weapons: the Put-On, the Gross-Out, and the In-Talk. The first, which they adapted from the American Negro and learned during the civil rights marches, is the technique of the elaborate lie, the phony story that is aimed at gulling the listener and shaming him without his knowing it. The Gross-Out -or "garbage mouth"-is a blunter weapon. A group of young people in a club dominated by adults will suddenly begin chanting four-letter words, louder and filthier all the time, until...
...shut down unless the church dismissed six recalcitrant rectors. "Priests should be educated by priests, not by clerks of the Ministry of Education," replied Wyszynski. "On some issues," said the angry prelate, "we will have to say that one must obey God rather than men. We have to lie down like watchdogs at the gates of the seminary to guard the freedom of conscience of the young clerics...
...protect them against enemies and intruders after death, Egypt's pharaohs were entombed with their treasures in cleverly concealed chambers deep with in their monumental pyramids. Most of these royal burial vaults have long since been discovered and looted, but some archaeologists suspect that others still lie undisturbed behind tons of lime stone and granite blocks. Egypt's pyramids may soon yield their remaining secrets. In a speech before the American Physical Society last week, University of California Physicist Luis Alvarez reported that his ingeniously conceived project to peer into the pyramids with cosmic rays is about...