Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Least Nine. The best answers to these needs lie across the Channel on the coast of France, from the Brittany peninsula to the Zuider Zee-a stretch ot 700 miles. At least nine ports fit the invasion requirements...
...Washington Merry-Go-Rounder Pearson rehashed some old stories about McKellar's choleric temper and his insatiable hunger for patronage. That afternoon the bulb-nosed Senator took advantage of a large audience, proceeded to bellow for over an hour what he chose to title "Personal Statement about a Lying Human Skunk." Excerpts: "Pearson is just an ignorant liar, a pusillanimous liar, a peewee liar, even if he is a paid liar. . . . When a man is a natural-born liar, a liar during his manhood and all the time, a congenital liar, a liar by profession, a liar...
Awful Truth. In Manhattan, New York Post Columnist Leonard Lyons reported that in California a psychiatric patient was asked if he were Napoleon. He craftily said "No." A lie detector showed he was lying...
...Both in Europe and in the Pacific, long roads still lie ahead. But we are now fully entered on those roads, fortified with unity, power and experience, imbued with confidence and determined to travel far and fast to victory...
...tell these officers that their task would be easy. He did tell them that their country was giving them the best of weapons, planning, air and naval support. But he told them that life and victory would lie in their own hands. They must be fit, know their weapons, use their skill and wits. They must have confidence in themselves; then their men would have confidence in them...