Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blame for Italy's being in history's junk yard? Italy's witty ex-Premier Francesco Nitti named a couple of safe scapegoats: Christopher Columbus and Niccolo Machiavelli. Machiavelli, Nitti explained, had "made us Italians out as men who are always ready to lie," Columbus was an even bigger culprit: his "indiscretion," Nitti claimed, had "shifted the axis of the world to the West," and Italy had been off the beam ever since...
...looked back at Philadelphia and said: "I prefer the sadness of Paris to all the joys of the United States." Then he adjusted the leather shoestring that served him as a tie and, looking back from 57 on his "lost generation," concluded: "The greatest of life's adventures lie in normalcy and well-being...
...such a crossfire, ex-Marine Colonel Roosevelt could only hit the dirt and lie low until the members of the State Democratic Central Committee gathered in extraordinary session (July 26). If the turnout then was big and the majority was for him, Jimmy might yet keep the party from coming apart. If it came apart, the Democrats' chances of carrying California for any candidate in 1948 would probably be riddled...
...Queen Victoria Jubilee Hall, thousands of weeping Burmans stood in the rain awaiting their turns to file past the embalmed bodies of U Aung San and his Buddhist fellow victims (which will lie in state a month before burial). Burma now had a martyr and a legend. The Bogyok's A.F.P.F.L. party was more popular than ever, but its leadership had been almost obliterated. British Governor Sir Hubert Elvin Rance (who gets assassination threats almost every day) announced to Burmans: "I am glad to inform you that . . . Thakin Nu [the murdered leader's right-hand man] has agreed...
...American sculling champion who undiplomatically brought cases of food with him to ensure victory in England. This English resentment is easily explained and can be shrugged off by Americans as something that just cannot be helped. But basically, it is a mis-directed resentment, the real roots of which lie in Britain's penny-wise-and-pound-foolish policies...