Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspapers had heard of no earthquake. A week passed and no far-flung correspondent cabled, radioed or telegraphed news of a disaster. But seismographs do not lie. There had been an earthquake and it had been violent...
...triumphal breezes billow the drooping banners of Belgium, where King Albert stands bareheaded, his children clinging to their mother's hand. Cardinal Mercier smiles forgiveness. Two Red Cross dogs pant patiently. The famed bicycle boy looks ready to ride again. In front of all the Belgians lie the broken fragments of Gothic masonry. Between Belgians and British, lilies at her feet, stands Nurse Edith Cavell with posthumous decorations on her flowing cape...
...public is still in the dark as to the extent to which the Anti-Saloon League and other non-governmental organizations influence the government in its work of prohibition. It can draw only one conclusion from the constant struggles which go on between those in authority; the blame must lie to a certain extent with a law which causes such difficulties. It is obvious that any such innovation must at the start create preliminary quarrels; but Prohibition has had time to form, if not complete harmony, at least a working agreement between its leaders...
...attend, occur betimes of a morning, in fact somewhere in the vicinity of 9 o'clock, to attend them makes it necessary to be an early riser. And here we strike a definite snag. The most important requisite to an early rising is fine weather. The urge to lie abed is considerably overcome by an overcast...
Laborite Will Thorne of West Ham (interrupting) : "That is a lie! ... The Attorney General is telling a lot of lies...