Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first an American, then a Southerner, and as I lie in my slit-trench during a break in maneuvers, my blood boils with rage at reading radical, damyankee Dr. Conant's wish for "setting up Federally financed but State-operated machinery for retraining the veterans and placing them in jobs, etc." [TIME, May 31). This Government control of so-called "freedom" is what I, and, I assure you, many like me are fighting against...
Last Post. No nation handles its casual ties as carefully as we do. The 125 who lie in rows at the edge of the crude cemetery were examined meticulously. A medical officer (Captain Louvera B. Schmidt of Salem, Ore.) recorded the cause of death and the number and type of wounds as each body was unclothed. Members of the graves registration company cut open each pocket and placed the personal effects of the dead in clean wool socks for dispatch to the quartermaster depot at Kansas City. One identification tag has been left on each body, the other nailed...
Often scotched but never killed has been the widespread lie that Britain has let the men of her Colonies and Dominions do most of her fighting. Last week, when Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced casualty figures for the Empire, the lie was nailed: between Sept. 3, 1939 and Sept. 3, 1942, British Empire fighting forces lost 514,993 men in killed, wounded, missing and prisoners. Of these, 275,844 were from the United Kingdom, 239,149 from the Dominions and Colonies...
...other Spanish cities. ... It is kind of General Franco to spare time from his preoccupation as a ruler of the most backward, derelict, poverty-stricken, starving, illiterate, reactionary country in Europe to tell us how to manage our affairs. This great Christian would not of course tell a lie.. . . As he is the head of a state, he is entitled to courtesy. Instead, therefore, of replying to him in a sailor's phrase of two words we will politely use five often to be found on office doors 'Keep out! This means you!' . . If Germany...
...work. The easy days of sheltered isolation are over. We have grown up. We must live day after day with the family of nations, furnishing our share of leadership. . . . Yes, commencement time is here. Responsibility has begun. Life has come upon us. The joys of opportunity and service lie ahead. No generation has ever had such an opportunity...