Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reefs guard its coast. The Marshalls, like the Gilberts, are ancient atolls - coral reefs ringing irregularly around blank and limpid lagoons. On the reef, like beads in a necklace, are occasional land masses of coral sand, large enough to support airfields and artillery installations. Hot and waterless, the Marshalls lie under the equatorial sun and dead men begin to stink very promptly. Flat and naked, the Marshall atolls have no natural protection, but how well they are fortified was indicated at Tarawa...
Team Man. The end of the smooth-running Dickmann-Hannegan machine came in 1941, after Missouri Democrats had blundered into the colossal error of attempting to "steal" the governorship from Republican Forrest C. Donnell (TIME, March 23, 1942). Bob Hannegan's organizing talents did not lie idle long. Year later, Missouri Senators Clark and Truman boomed him for Collector of Internal Revenue in St. Louis...
...Kremlin made no comment but, significantly, it permitted Moscow correspondents to cable a lie of a kind which had not come from Moscow since the abrupt end of the Soviet Union-German pact in 1941. The British Government spoke stiffly, swiftly: "There is no truth whatever in the story...
Hitler's residence (but not the Reich Chancellery on the Wilhelmstrasse), Goebbels' home lie in ruins. Göring's offices in Prussia House were being repaired when another bomber abruptly finished them off. Other write-offs: the Foreign Office, Treasury Office, Gestapo Headquarters, Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler's official residence, Home Office, Army Records Office, Ministry of Armaments & Munitions, Ministry of Education. Severely damaged factories read like a Berlin industrial directory: Siemens, A.E.G., Dornier, Rheinmetall-Borsig, Alkett Motor, B.M.W., Schering...
World of Enemies. This twofold policy can be interpreted in terms which do not rule out the fulfillment of Teheran, but do clarify the Russian realities which lie in the way of that fulfillment. The real Russian case, as the Russians might present...