Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign the Communists made a lot of noise, said nothing that was much to the point. But the Conservatives, like their British opposite numbers, got down to political issues, charged that the welfare state had killed initiative. They cited cases: Norway's seal catchers lie idle rather than risk their lives for profits limited to 5%; berry pickers eat their blueberries rather than sell them and go up into higher income-tax brackets. Recently, with an eye on the polls, the Socialists dropped many of their austerity restrictions-"Like Salome," as one Conservative put it, "dropping her veils...
Wiener Bluf. In Vienna, police ruled that actresses and female artists signing official papers might lie about their age, up to ten years, without risking punishment for false registration...
...General Carlos P. Romulo of the Philippines, a neat, brisk figure always dressed in immaculate black, was presiding with proud relish when he got the news of the year. A U.S. correspondent passed him a note: "President Truman has just announced that Russia has the atom bomb. Amen." Trygve Lie, at Romulo's side, scribbled a quick reply: "If true, it makes the U.N. all the more indispensable." Then he sat back to await Andrei Vishinsky's scheduled address...
While most delegates would agree with Trygve Lie that the U.N. was more than ever "indispensable," none seemed to know what would make it less ineffectual. Delegates could face their problems only in the somber spirit of U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson's opening speech to the Assembly: "To the extent that we cannot solve them today, we must endure them...
...colors, he looked small and inconsequential. The diggers, fascinated by the era in which he lived, were not much interested in the man himself. Only one thing about him was worth noting: his legs were tightly folded under his chin because the ancient Peruvians believed that a man should lie m his grave in the position in which he lay in his mother's womb...