Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sits at the table thrice daily in hundreds of millions of homes. . . . The world uses the words 'starvation' and 'famine' very loosely; some travelers glibly report there is now widespread death-dealing famine on the Continent of Europe. In modern civilization whole nations do not lie down and die. The casual observers do not realize that famine would have already struck great groups and classes were it not for past overseas supplies and that it is in evitable, unless we land for the next months every ton of overseas food that we can summon. And nothing...
...Despite all of Marshall's good efforts, there is little sign that China will soon, achieve what most Americans would regard as a real compromise. The Communists still plainly believe that compromise, while sometimes expedient, means surrender of gains or inhibition of opportunities. Their opportunities this, spring lie in hunger, inflation and hardship...
...Conant as he returns to fulltime duty. If their solution is to be part of an active liberal tradition, the President must turn to intimate and personal contact with the inner workings of the college. To allow policy to stem from intermediate and lesser sources is to give the lie to the prophecy that the next years will be the years of "Conant's Harvard," much as the College of the beginning of the century was "Eliot's Harvard," and "the Great Harvard." It is not a matter of imposing the will of the President on the so-called "intellectual...
This development did not seem to depress the delegates in the least-even though their governments had spent $250,000 to give the college a global air. Hunter was not really big enough. Already, Secretary General Trygve Lie had a line on a likely spot for U.N.'s next visit-the spacious, glass-bricked, $18 million Sperry Gyroscope plant at Lake Success, Long Island...
...Always go easy on reproducing oratorical violence-even though some diplomats resent it. Last year in Berlin, a British delegate branded a colleague's statement as a "damn lie." Mathieu rendered this in French as: "The honorable gentleman has not told the facts in a manner which checks with the information which I myself have on those facts." The Britisher insisted that all he had said was: "That is a damn lie...