Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Donald Nelson and the new face of Judge Fred M. Vinson. Mr. Roosevelt's personal program was unwritten but plain: from now on he would be Commander in Chief. "Assistant President" Jimmy Byrnes would boss the home front. Boss Jimmy promised the U.S.: "Many attacks on many fronts lie ahead...
Said Premier Stalin, in a letter to Reuters Harold King: "Dissolution of the Communist International . . . exposes the lie of the Hitlerites to the effect that 'Moscow' allegedly intends to intervene in the life of other nations and to 'bolshevize' them. . . It facilitates . . future organization of the companionship of nations based upon their equality...
...hear sniffs of derision?" he asks. "What . . . if the sheep leave a hoof print to spoil your lie? What if the greens are too slow or uneven to make perfect putting possible? What if, in the absence of rough, the man who slices has as good a chance as you? My answer is that you, Mr. Sniffer, are probably the man who slices and in your heart you'd be extremely happy to find that you didn't have to lose three strokes three feet off the fairway...
Brigands & Beauties. The old Ethiopia goes its way. Along the new mountain highways, old-fashioned Ethiopian brigands lie in wait for British truck convoys instead of camel caravans, use hand grenades and rifles instead of spears and poisoned arrows. Ethiopians still farm with wooden, wife-drawn plows, still live in filth and squalor...
When the day of the 10,000-mile plane has fully dawned, aircraft can hop from continent deep into continent. Then the world's airways, over the great circle (shortest) courses, will lie largely across the top of the world, may reach, too, across the Antarctic to the more thinly populated areas of the Southern Hemisphere...