Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equal to the challenge? In an instant, without warning, the present had become the unthinkable future. Was there hope in that future, and if so, where did hope lie...
...Elliott, this was an attack from an unexpected quarter. He had just answered the critics of his financial manipulations (TIME, June 25). He had denied his father had ever "promoted or assisted" his private affairs, branded such a charge as "a deliberate, infamous lie." To the new charge that he had helped T.W.A. get a choice postwar plum- a charge trumpeted on the floor of Congress by Michigan's Paul Shafer...
...July 14) the French Government made a revolutionary announcement: the guillotine, which like military conscription, is one of the fruits of the French Revolution, is about to go the way of the auto-da-fe as an instrument of human justice. Henceforth condemned Frenchmen will not have to lie down and bare their necks to the falling knife; they may, as soon as transportation and the French electric-power shortage permit, sit down in a shiny new, U.S.-made electric chair...
Bill Paley snapped right back: "The article . . . is a clear example of irresponsible journalism. It falsely accuses me of using my official position to further my private financial interests. . . . Protecting my reputation against a palpable lie ... I am making arrangements to bring suit for libel...
...Matabele, a savage offshoot of the Zulu tribe, named their warrior king Lobengula ("He Who Drives Like the Wind"). But by 1880 the fat, short-winded monarch preferred to lie on his bed toying with the stolen diamonds he kept in a couple of kerosene cans, while his wives covered his naked body with gold sovereigns...