Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What was the solution? It did not lie merely in the hands of OPA (although he hoped that something would be done about ceiling prices). The real solution, said Young Henry, lay in the hands of everyone. It was time for the U.S. to roll up its sleeves, set aside all other considerations and "pitch in and work...
...delegation had first put forward the name of Canada's Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, though they knew the Russians would not stand for a North American. The Russians advanced the names of two obscure eastern Europeans, although they knew the U.S. would not accept a Soviet stooge. Lie was the serious candidate of both the Americans and the Russians, although each thought the other would object...
After nearly three weeks of maneuvering in the dark, U.S. Delegate Edward R. Stettinius called a Big Five meeting, tossed Lie's name in as a "compromise candidate." Britain's Bevin said it was well worth considering, but he would like to consult his Government. Vishinsky, recalling criticism of long delays while Moscow thought problems over, voted a loud and prompt yes. In the General Assembly only three votes were cast against Lie...
Bubbling with happiness, Norwegian Labor's Lie joined Belgian Labor's Spaak and Australian Labor's Makin in UNO's high command. Lie called a press conference, waved his arms at the reporters, bellowed: UNO will be bigger, stronger, sounder than the League of Nations ever...
Official "errors," Pratt conceded, are a concomitant of war. "The novelty ... is the continuing official insistence that the official lies were perfectly true. ... A flat lie from the Navy Department about the loss of the cruisers off Savo Island eventually had to be corrected. . . . The really dangerous, because far more numerous, instances are those in which no corrective has been applied . . . because the event is not sufficiently newsworthy to bother with after the facts do become known...