Word: lier
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...Chee says he will keep fighting, no matter how high the cost. He cites the veteran opposition leader Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam as his in-spiration. But to most observers, the 76-year-old Jeyaretnam is more like a cautionary tale: he was declared bankrupt and removed from Parliament ear-lier this year, after failing to pay his defamation bills...
...They rose and cheered," Jones says. "The students actually had him for an ear lier course...
Even Captain Hoover, as gung-ho as he seems, knows the horrors. "I've lost a good friend," he said. A few days ear lier, the of his fellow captains was killed by sniper fire at the airport. For Hoover last week, three days before his head quarters was wiped out, the losses still seemed of emotionally manageable proportions. Casualties had happened one or a few at a time. "No one likes to hear about Marines being killed or wounded," Hoover said. "I've known half of the men who have been killed, one particularly well. That...
...dean country with a large uneducated Indian population, the is sues and responsibilities are sharpened. "If you are a writer," says Vargas Llosa, "you are a privileged man in this kind of society." Many of his conservative countrymen have felt that he has abused the privilege. Those ear lier Vargas Llosa novels, some written while he lived in Europe, were glaring reflections of Peruvian oppression and corruption and the Latin cult of virility. The most stylish was Conversation in the Cathedral (1975), in which the country was symbolically depicted as a brothel during the administration of President Manuel Odria...
...Kings' comments about Barnett were sorrowful rather than angry. Ear lier in the week, King had suggested that the former secretary had been "in and out of institutions" and had attempted suicide. Barnett was, in fact, listed on Los Angeles County fire department logs for a "possible suicide attempt" last October, after she was found lying, with a broken back, on the beach 30 ft. below the balcony of the stilt-supported Malibu home...