Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Dartmouth comes Andover, and then Yale and Efinger. There's no doubt about it, the honeymoon is over and the real tests lie ahead...
Last week, as the Senate droned on about slums in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York, Illinois' freshman Senator Paul Douglas invited his colleagues to inspect the slums that lie within the shadow of the Capitol. Four Senators made the first trip; seven the second. With Douglas as guide, the first group-Republicans Wayne Morse, Homer Ferguson, Raymond Baldwin and Democrat Theodore Green-set out with the air of men exploring an Arabian casbah...
...Ralph Bunche, the U.N.'s successful untangler of Arab-Jewish relations, arrived home in New York to be greeted at the dock by his wife and five-year-old Ralph Jr. Also on the welcoming detail: U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie and some bored policemen, assigned to handle an anticipated crowd of admirers that never turned up. Later in the week, though, the American Association for the United Nations announced that it was giving Statesman Bunche a scroll for "distinguished service...
...basic attribute of Western sculpture, that look of motion kept reappearing throughout the Met's show. It was present in Tullio Lombardo's 15th Century Adam and in Jean Antoine Houdon's 18th Century masterpiece, The Bather. A 20th Century example was the lie de France, a nude female torso by the late great Frenchman Aristide Maillol, who had gone so far as to imitate even the damages to classical sculpture by leaving off head, arms arid feet...
...kind of story that nightclub pressagents lie awake mornings trying to contrive, knowing that the tabloids will lap it up if it can be made to look like hot news. One morning last week, while other Manhattan papers were playing photographs of the Northwest's earthquake (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) on their front pages, the New York Daily News coolly threw its quake pictures on the floor. It had exclusive, newsstand-shocking news of its own; on Page One, the Daily News slapped a full-page action shot of Stripteasers Georgia Sothern and Joann Collier, zestfully clawing each other outside...