Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buying Them." The reaction to this unfounded, undocumented accusation was sharp and swift. Ambassador Steinhardt, who had been away from his post when the crisis began, cabled: "Henry Wallace appears to have been well briefed by his Communist associates." The State Department gave the official lie to Wallace. Said the New York Times: "We have a new standard for measuring just how valuable a contribution Mr. Wallace's presidential candidacy is now making to the ideology of international Communism...
Familiar voices repeated an old and threadbare lie-the miners were merely on a vacation. But almost every one of 400,000 soft-coal miners had left the pits. Blast furnaces had begun to shut down. An anxious government ordered railroads to cut their coal-burning passenger service by 25%. These were the first signs of the palsy which always accompanies a coal strike. It was no nightmare. It was, in fact and flesh, John Lewis again...
...most promising was Hudson Review, edited by three young Princeton alumni. It also promised the most, notably, never to fall into pedantry or opportunism, nor to "open its pages to those whose only merits lie in their anguish, their fervor, and their experimentation...
...tired to eat; but as he crawled on, he "jotted down notes on the surrounding flora," dictated to his companion a concise summary of the local vegetation, and then said quietly: "Now I can go no further. . . . Will you find a place for me where I can lie down?" In 1930 John Courtauld, pioneer of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition, volunteered to remain snowed-in for an entire winter and to try "to approximate a state of hibernation" (he was dug out, still alive, next spring...
...appears that Mr. Cobb would defend the hecklers on still another ground, for he states that "the total disregard for the movements of the Politburo ... by most of the speakers showed all too clearly where their true sentiments lie." Besides being logically ridiculous, the statement's implications are patently false. At least six of the nine speakers are well known to be unqualifiedly opposed to Communism; four of them prefaced their speeches with declarations in support of the Marshall Plan; three of these represented groups which in effect bar Communists from membership. In the light of these facts, the reference...