Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From London arrived Norway's big, jovial, realistic Foreign Minister Trygve Lie (rhymes with me). His mission: 1) to sound out Russian intentions in Norway where the Red Army is fighting in the north; 2) to ask what Norway's new neighbor, Russia, expected in the way of Norwegian good neighborliness...
...overseas army were inadequate. In Calgary, Brigadier P. R. Shields, home after five years of fighting, said that when he left England "they were scraping the bottom of the pot." The Montreal Gazette frontpaged a letter from a soldier wounded on the Western Front: "... all the politicians lie who say that reinforcements are adequate. ..." From London came word that the First Canadian Army, already reinforced by Poles, Czechs, Dutch and Belgians, was being further reinforced by U.S. troops...
...whom many Britons call "our best general since Marlborough" died (of anemia) last week in the U.S. Army's Walter Reed Hospital. Promptly Franklin Roosevelt awarded a posthumous Distinguished Service Medal. John Dill's body was borne across the Potomac to Arlington Cemetery, to lie among the U.S.'s military great...
Death in the Night. They are noisy, and gaps between U.S. positions are relatively large. Consequently, infiltration is easily accomplished. Dawn and dusk are best times for attack. It is especially easy to approach U.S. positions and launch an attack when it is raining, inasmuch as U.S. soldiers lie low in their trenches and try to stay under cover of their ponchos...
Only later was "the legend of his inaccessibility . . . developed." Out of working hours his household found him full of "gay nonsense" and friendliness. lie enjoyed whittling, because, he said: "Waittiers are thinkers . . . and from groups of whittlers come the trickles of sentiment and conviction which merge at last to form the broad stream of public opinion." In the evening he liked to read poetry aloud to the assembled family, or sing snatches of Gilbert & Sullivan and Scottish ballads. He loved to play the "heavy villain" in family melodramas, "dragging one foot behind him, scowling over his shoulder," and barking...