Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diabolical lie!" cried Illinois's Scott Lucas in the Senate. " A damn lie!" growled Chairman Sol Bloom of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The Senator and the Representative, delegates to the recent U.S.-British conference on refugees at Bermuda, were jointly irked by a three-quarter-page ad in the New York Times last week in which the vociferous Committee for a Jewish Army of Stateless and Palestinian Jews screamed that TO 5,000,000 JEWS IN THE NAZI DEATHTRAP BERMUDA WAS A "CRUEL MOCKERY...
...medicines and other supplies needed to resettle some of the 20,000 refugees in Spain, the 100,000 in the Balkans. Some 55,000 Jews are to be moved to Palestine. Homes may be found for other refugees in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, perhaps the U.S. and South America. Ahead lie months of ticklish negotiations. But at least the conference had mapped action, however limited...
Saint-Exupéry begins by saying that when he was six he drew a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an elephant. Says lie: "I showed my masterpiece to the grownups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them...
...with stiffer competition for the available appointments. So will schools for officers in England and Australia (schools in two South Pacific islands have been abandoned). The rate of attrition among officers-due to battle casualties and health-has been high, especially in the South Sea jungles, where Jap snipers lie in wait for the man who issues commands...
...good novelist. He is not even, in the sense that a novel requires, a good writer. With rare exceptions he is incapable even of suggesting that his characters are human. Even when, through pure earnestness, he manages to, his dialogue throws the matter in doubt. Few young women lie in bed and say to their husbands, "You can't call Spain a handful of fanatical idealists. A whole people is fighting at bay for its freedom and its life. And millions the world over are with them, and one-sixth of the earth aids them. . . ." That official dialect, with...