Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...polled more votes than Tammany's candidate, James H. Torrens, 69, received on the Democratic ballot. The 3.226 votes that Torrens got on the leftist American Labor Party's ticket were the margin of his victory. Even more important, Republican Bennet won the only two sections that lie wholly in Harlem...
...Accepted estimate was that in two years it has caused about 86,000 deaths in Qena and Aswan provinces (pop. about 1,000,000), some 400 miles from Cairo. Other estimates run as high as 200,000. Whole villages have been wiped out and, as in plague times, bodies lie unburied in the streets. Only in India and China, where malaria's pernicious forms are common, are such epidemics prevalent...
...great United Nations concern is the future of Axis educational systems. Britain's Baron Vansittart of Denham advocates supervision of German schools by 1,000 or so United Nations inspectors, who would aim to raise a generation of woolly lambs fit to lie down with any lion. Last week a similar idea was expressed in Princeton's Public Opinion Quarterly by Gregor Athalwin Ziemer, who once ran the American Colony School in Berlin (1928-39), then wrote Education for Death (Hitler's Children on the screen). Said Ziemer...
...wartime blood, toil, sweat and tears. Said Eden: "I do not in my experience remember when foreign policy was so diffi cult to conduct as it is now. ... I can only promise the House this: plenty of difficulties, plenty of disappointment and much deception in the times that lie ahead...
Eventually they were introduced to the vehicles they were going to operate. They were British four-man midget submarines, designated as X-class boats. The men knew that once started on an assignment it would be physically impossible to lie down. No one could cook food; they would have to live on the beefed-up rations and drinks they took along. Censorship has cleared nothing on the X-boats sanitary arrangements; presumably the men had relief tubes like those provided for airplane pilots on long flights...