Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME have its editorial tongue in cheek when reporting "Playing the Angles" [Oct. 21]? Are . . . readers to assume that American citizens have become so completely demoralized that they must court dishonesty in a thriving black market, must lie, cheat and connive in their frenetic clamor for meat, soap and automobiles, and disown their offspring to obtain an apartment? . . . Not only have we an ample supply of meat, but thousands of Canadians are donating meat coupons to the Canadian Meat Board to help feed the starving Europeans. . . . I have no wish to be smug, but surely if Canada...
...fighter and in love with a nice girl and what went wrong. Burt Lancaster, as the Swede, underplays his part right down to the danger point, but he never slips, never makes a mistake. In his hands the Swede becomes the moody, unpredictable, slow-thinking guy who finally can lie on his bed in his room and wait for the killers...
Spain. In his initial report, Secretary General Trygve Lie bluntly said he hoped that U.N. would "find ways and means by which liberty . . . may be restored in Spain." The Russians were obviously pleased, and no other important delegation hurried to object. Argentina's Jose Arce obliquely defended Franco by urging caution against "any downfall in the old-established human societies and centers of culture...
...York City's Acting Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri presented to the U.N.'s big, bluff Secretary General Trygve Lie an enormous gilt key to the New York City building on the Fairgrounds. ¶ Mr. Impellitteri and Park Commissioner Robert Moses also made a formal offer to give the U.N. the 350 acres of Flushing Meadow Park, if the U.N. would choose it as a permanent site. Nourished in the bosom of an urban community, the New York officials believed, the U.N. would find 350 acres enough. ¶Since the U.N. will remain in the New York area...
...part of the Federal Government. Economic life has become too complex and too impersonal for attempts at improvement by lesser agencies to be effective. The precise extent of governmental control over economic activities id a matter for dispute even among Liberals, but the median of their beliefs would probably lie close to mild Socialism, encompassing supervision of essential industry, utilities, and basic resources...