Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Justice Jackson's remarkable definition of the military defendants' status was enough to make all professional soldiers lie awake nights: "We recognize that to plan warfare is the business of professional soldiers in every country. But it is one thing to plan strategic moves in the event war comes, and it is another thing to plot and intrigue to bring on that war. . . . Military men are not before you because they served their country. They are here because they mastered it, along with these others, and drove it to war. They are not here because they lost...
...still fighting hard against the machine last week. In Chicago, seasoned liars were still holding out against the lie detector...
...like to have for your people and let the labor statesmanship go to hell for a while? Reuther: Translate that so I know what you mean. ... I understand you think our position makes it more difficult to work out a solution because we are getting into issues here that lie outside the narrow limits of collective bargaining...
...When he says he loves me he takes it about as seriously as his promises which he never keeps. ... I have just sent him a letter. ... If I don't get an answer by 10 o'clock I'll take my 25 pills and lie down peacefully...
...monumentum requiris, circumspice-is the apt epitaph of England's great Christopher Wren in St. Paul's Cathedral, his architectural monument. The monument is not Wren's alone: within the high-domed, Italianate majesty of St. Paul's on London's Ludgate Hill lie British immortals Nelson, Wellington and Jellicoe. Transepts and chapels bulge with toga-ed statues to admirals of the fleet, generals of the line, with monuments to famous victories...