Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over and over: "Those guys just starved to death. They just starved." It was easy to see that they were starved. There was just nothing on them, nothing but yellowish or brownish skin stretched, tightly over bones and cavities and all their members hung down loosely, as they lie on men who throw themselves down exhausted to the ground. Some men who were not dead sat idly on a bench nearby. A Frenchman who had drifted up just smiled and smiled in that curious, almost hysterical way that you sometimes smile at overwhelming horror...
...busy day. Never a man to lie late abed, the new President was up at 6:30, breakfasted in his apartment with his old friend Hugh Fulton, the ex-Wall Street lawyer who had been counsel, investigator and workhorse for the Truman (now Mead) investigating committee (see below). At 9, President Truman was ready to go to the White House...
...Chaplain] paused a moment. Then he pronounced the words of the Twenty-third Psalm: 'The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth me beside the still waters...
...device, known as the "ring sight," looks something like a reading glass. When a gunner peers through it, he sees a set of rainbow-colored, concentric circles. Unlike rings painted on glass, these optical rings are projected beyond the disk and seem to lie directly on the object sighted (see cut). Easier to use and more accurate than most optical sights, the ring sight is especially helpful against moving targets, because the regularly spaced outer rings give a gunner a means of measuring how much he must lead the target...
...days later, the bishop rowed to the island. "It's hard to keep things straight," said the old ladies. "We pump all day, and the leaves still lie on the ground." "You need a man," said the bishop, "a [French] prisoner to come and work." "Herr Bishop!" screeched the old ladies, "a Frenchman-with a young girl on the island?" But a few days later young Paul Laprade arrived. "Permit me, Madame," he said, bowing to each surprised old lady and gently helping her onto the seesaw. "Love is stronger than death, and that is what will save...