Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imminence of victory-"Sudden waves of optimism [lead] the public to feel that we have made our great effort and the end is in sight. This is far from the case. We are just getting well started. The great battles lie ahead. We have yet to be proven in the agony of enduring heavy casualties, as well as the reverses which are inevitable in war. What we need now is a stoic determination to overwhelm the enemy, cost what...
...within sight of Fujiyama and lain doggo for hours while the enemy's "cans" hunted and depth-charged, who have surfaced at night so close to the Japs that Tokyo Rose* came on the radio like a performer on a local station at home, have no need to lie. The truth of their work is enough...
Some of the refuse of victory will lie where it fell, awaiting discovery by some archeologist of the future searching the course of old battles...
...they are just ripe and dried at once, before they begin to lose their freshness and flavor. Before they are put in the dehydrator they are cleaned, peeled and cut in small pieces; vegetables are blanched with steam, fruits blanched or sulfured with fumes from a sulfur candle. They lie in the dehydrator for seven to 20 hours (tomatoes and pears take longest) at a drying temperature of about 145°F., finally emerge a tenth of their original size and are stored in a cool, dark place in moisture-proof jars, boxes or bags (heavy waxed paper is good...
...into orange hills." Honeysuckle smothered the rickety porch railing. There were white birches in the yard, a ginkgo tree by the windows. But misfortune followed so relentlessly it might have been planned. Once the Japanese butler at the Vanderlips' swimming pool asked her: "Why your little boy, he lie at bottom of pool so long for?" Rodney was two hours getting the water pumped...