Word: lier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...backlands battles were even dead lier because they pitted government troops and supporters against a tough garrison commander and some soldiers still loyal to longtime (1933-48) Dictator Tiburcio ("Bucho") Carias, whose Nationalist Party also opposes Lozano. Ten were killed. Lesser violence influenced the vote in other places. Voters in one village reported that police forced them at gunpoint to chew up and swallow their Liberal ballots, then forced them to vote for the government's National Union Party (P.U.N...
...Grivas' diary (TIME, Sept. 3) showing a close association with Makarios. Lenox-Boyd now felt justified in all his darkest suspicions of Makarios. The discovery of the diaries came at an adventitious moment (a fact that stirred cynical memories of similar "discoveries" about Irish rebels at an ear lier date). The Greeks, of course, cried forgery. But even the portion released by the Colonial Office to bolster their case hardly justified the interpretations some London papers gave...
Allen's gamble gave Boeing a little breathing period, but the company was still in deep trouble. The planes were expensive to produce (price: $1,500,000), even cost lier to operate. Boeing made only 56 Stratocruisers for civilian customers. Net loss: $15 million. In 1948 more troubles piled up. This time they came from a bitter, 144-day strike by the Aero Mechanics Union at Seattle. Boeing wanted to revise wartime seniority provisions that prevented it from shifting workers and thereby cutting costs. The union said no, and 14,000 men went out. Civic groups in Seattle...
...anything more than a routine crossing of the wintry Atlantic. Then, west and north of the Bay of Biscay, the ship was enveloped by an awesome storm. A black sky pressed down. The horizon vanished in flying spindrift. As solid seas began thundering over the vessel's bow, lier radio picked up a warning: worse was to come-the fiercest December gales in 22 years were howling along the European coast...