Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Windadge was in charge of a landing craft delivering jeeps to our troops on Biak. Just before making the landing an unaccountable swell shook the craft and the jeeps fell into the sea. When the troops ashore demanded to know where their transportation was, Windadge replied: "Many brave jeeps lie asleep in the deep...
...been having a busy June but a bad one. The "silly season" has sprouted comedies that lack even a silly seasoning of wit, farces more like new forms of torture, a beer-&-pretzel extravaganza at which the vile acoustics became a virtue. Most of these walking corpses already lie in their little graves. Least bad and most likely to survive: Take a Bow, a variety show that, whenever it comes up with a good turn, forgets that one good turn deserves another...
...given the honor of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history, and in the better days that lie ahead, men will speak with pride of our doings. . . . Let us go forward to victory, and, as we enter the battle, let us recall the words of a soldier spoken many years...
Agreement was a temporary victory for British policy aimed at saving the throne for London's friend, exiled King George II. Delegates of the Communist-led EAM pledged cooperation in a note to Winston Churchill. But among the rugged, volatile Greeks, political differences lie deep, will not be easily forgotten. The fact was unity among Greeks; the logical question, for how long...
...cast of the back of his hand, when peeled off, will pull out particles of gunpowder imbedded in the skin. A new X-ray test reveals tiny particles of lead in clothing, showing that a bullet has been fired through it. Dr. Snyder reports that detectives have found the lie detector extremely useful. Though it is exceedingly dubious in the case of pathological liars, drunks, dope addicts or morons, it has solved many an otherwise unsolvable crime. Of 1,551 suspects tested with Leonarde Keeler's famed lie detector, 563 were caught lying and of these 308 promptly confessed...