Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dropping arms to partisans in enemy-held territory, this job made the airmen blanch. It meant flying 900 miles each way over hostile territory; part over Czechoslovakia, through some of the heaviest flak in Europe. Fighter cover was impossible and all the way back Nazi night fighters would lie in wait for them. Over Warsaw, they had to turn southwest to a certain bridge over the Vistula, fly so many blocks, and make their drops on a particular side of a given street. To do so they had to fly over Warsaw at only 500 ft., only 150 miles...
...Allied Fifth and Eighth Armies -including British, Canadians, Poles, Greeks, Indians, Palestinians, Brazilians, French, Tunisians. Senegalese, and U.S. (white, Negro and Nisei) troops-were making headway. If Rimini falls, the way will lie open into the Po valley and the Gothic Line will be flanked. Last week in the course of this fighting, another nation was precipitated, almost unnoticed, into the abyss...
...Morotai, where engineers started building an airfield immediately, MacArthur's greatly augmented force of bombers will be within good striking distance of the Netherlands East Indies. But, attractive as the western view seemed, MacArthur's eyes were lifted to the northern horizon where the Philippines lie, 300 miles away. Said he: "They are waiting for me there. It has been a long time...
This time the old man could not even fight a losing battle for Fiume. His mind was in the past or troubled by the nightmare of Fascism. "The idea that Italy was mistreated at Versailles," he mumbled, "is an historic lie. . . . Actually Italy fared better at Versailles than any of the major powers. . . . Her northern boundaries extended to the Alps ... her ancient enemy [Austria] destroyed. Italy ... a first-rate power. ... We shall have to start all over again...
These events, climaxed by satisfactory violence, persuaded the publishers to describe Lie Down in Darkness as "a devastating picture of the 'society' which it mirrors." It is nothing of the sort. It is an orchidaceously morbid psychological thriller, smooth, fast-paced, taut with suspense...