Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Battle For Survival. The retreat was not yet a rout: the Teutonic habit of obedience was still firm, the armies' strength was still great, the commanders still able. But, however masterly, it was a retreat. Momentary survival, a postponement of utter defeat, might lie somewhere in the rear. But victory could not lie there. Victory lay in the opposite direction...
Many of these conditions antedate President Juan Antonio Rios. Their root causes lie deep in an anciently depressed economy. But informed Chileans agree that amiable, pliant President Rios could have done much more than he has even tried to do to stem the immediate effects of inflation. He has abundant powers, recently augmented by a long-pending economic-control bill. But he has hesitated to offend any loud, well-organized pressure group such as the landowners (Farm Bloc) or the middlemen (Little Business). Should Chile turn out to be another feeding ground for Fascism, part of the blame must rest...
...bombardment turned the terrain into a shambles, crushed houses into the earth, splintered olive trees, killed white oxen on the roads. The earth was pocked so that a man could not lie spread-eagled on it without his hands and feet touching shell holes. The Germans who died were piled like cordwood. Those who lived came out of their trenches to machine-gun the Canadian infantry. For three days the Canadians attacked and were counterattacked before the Germans gave up the gully, the ridgetop and finally the crossroads...
...lie detector," said Mrs. Edna Hancock, "lied...
...veracity of lie detectors was headed for trial last week in a Brooklyn court. On the trial's outcome may hinge whether one Murray Goldman, accused of attempting to rape Mrs. Hancock, goes to prison for ten years...