Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...succeeded in proving that I have tampered with any historical fact, or falsified either Milton's literary style or his point of view; and I trust that no American critic will, either. To have represented Milton as spouting beautiful poetry and doing beautiful deeds would have been a lie; throughout his life with Marie Powell he did not write a single memorable poem, or, so far as we know, perform a single generous deed. And nobody can love the Milton of the pamphlets...
...distinct golden haze already reflected in the eyes of some of the more confident of our brothers such as "Weeping Walter" Blatt. Of course there always will be people like the local ROTC who would dispute our primacy by having their commissioning the day before ours, but consolation will lie in our proud oak leaf insignia which, together with the Supply Corps, is 150 years old this Friday and which, incidentally, was adopted in 1785 in honor of the oaken fighting ships on which the Corps first served
...great immediate threat was from Nimitz, who could pick his way up the steppingstone islands to the mouth of Tokyo Bay. Whether Japan could be invaded before the Jap armies on the mainland of Asia had been engaged was still debatable. But the way to China did not necessarily lie through Luzon and Formosa. The Japs themselves had pointed to the possibility of a northern route through the Ryukyu Islands to the great ports around the mouth of the Yangtze River...
Rogers. "We have 430 acres. . . . Our only boy 23 years of age, has done practically all the work, as I am 70 years of age and physically unable . . . to do anything except the lightest work. If this boy is taken, our farm would lie idle...
...game of jai alai (pronounced high lie) is Cuba's contribution to Miami's sport life. Long popular in a grubby way, despite its commercialization - its bursts of breath-taking action punctuated by frequent intermissions while the audience was canvassed for bets - it may prove to be a big-time gambling game...