Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lidice, Czechoslovakia, is now a wheat field dotted with red poppies. People from the neighboring villages have cleared a 25-foot-square plot in the center of the field, and erected a small crucifix marked "Here Lie the Bodies of Lidice's Victims. Murdered June 10, 1942 by the German Invaders...
...trio was broken up for five days. The Japs locked Comptroller Bowen in a bamboo cage not wide or long enough to lie down in while they questioned, threatened and kicked him (they thought he could tell them where the medical college had hidden its famed archeological relic, the bones of Peiping Man, presumably so they could present them to the Emperor. Bowen did not know...
...solution seemed to lie in a U.S. loan of up to $3 billion, which the British would accept only if they had plenty of time to pay and if interest rates were low or merely nominal. The U.S., anxious to get partner Britain back on her feet, had conditions, too: 1) modification of Britain's pro-cartel policy; 2) scaling-down of Britain's debts by the countries of the sterling group; 3) relaxation of Empire trade preferences...
...Charles Cousins, an Australian captured at Singapore, and a U.S. Army captain named Ince. She first went on the air as "Ann" (short for announcer), and later expanded the name to "Orphan Annie, your playmate." (She never used Tokyo Rose, the G.I. name for her. ) It was all a lie, also, she insisted, that she had opened her program by saying: "Good evening again to the . . . forgotten men, the American fighting men. . . ." The wages of sin, in her case, were 100 yen ($6.60) a month, later raised to 147 yen. Just what the punishment will...
...less can second-class powers like Britain and Sweden. Why cannot the Foreign Ministers in the socialist Swedish and British Governments-and soon in the Norwegian and Danish-meet and draw up a program together?" By that time Danish Foreign Minister John Christmas Moeller and Norwegian Foreign Minister Trygve Lie were already in London, talking trade and credits with British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin...