Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were the champion, I'd lie down in the first round. That would give boxing the glorious reputation it enjoyed before Cassius Clay fought Sonny Liston, and give the world a champion it can appreciate...
Next victim: Anna Maria Alberghet-ti, who said she was too sick to appear in Carnival and dragged herself off to the hospital. Merrick sent the lady a bouquet of plastic roses and demanded a lie-detector test. At various times since then, he has flown into snits over Richard Rodgers, Arthur Miller, Barry Goldwater, Mayor Lindsay, the New York Telephone Co., the New York City Transit Authority, and the Republican Party (when accused of calling Henry Cabot Lodge "a broken-down Republican," he denied indignantly that he had used "a phrase so redundant"). He has even taken out after...
Even the ragtag New York Rangers refused to lie down. After handing the Hawks a third straight shutout in New York, they skated into Chicago hellbent on making it four. The 20,000 home-town fans who had sardinepacked themselves into the 17,100-capacity Chicago Stadium sat in mute agony as the Hawks fell behind 2-0. Hull could do nothing. Then in the third period, Chicago warmed the ice. And minutes later, with the score 2-1, the Rangers were penalized a man. It looked like Hull's chance. Up went an expectant, hopeful cheer...
During the past year President Johnson's distrust of White House correspondents and of the majority of political columnists has not subsided. The press's criticism of the Vietnam policy and its frequent inflation warnings are partly responsible for this taut, uneasy relationship. But the roots of the impasse lie in the President's limited conception of the press's privileges and responsibilities...
...kids' comments, such as a boy's note explaining his failure to turn in homework: "My dog pead on it." Teachers everywhere seem to have kids as sniggery as those of Miss Barrett's, who is advised by a veteran teacher: "Never give a lesson on lie and lay" and never say "the word frigate," as in Emily Dickinson's "There is no frigate like a book...