Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said he had seen Negro workers "chip in for a pint of whiskey which they got in the next town. They take it back with them and lie dead drunk between the rows of beans and tomatoes...
...chaplain explained, however, that as far as the coming Washington Birthday holiday is concerned, when other groups are being allowed to go scott free, he didn't mind a bit. Washington seemed a little out of his category any how, "because he never told a lie...
...shown her hand-a fact compounded of Soviet secrecy and a negative Anglo-American policy. Whether or not such a Balkan adventure was ever contemplated, there was urgent reason right now for an Anglo-American political understanding with Russia, and the means for such an understanding seemed to lie in a U.S.-Soviet conference. (At his press conference Franklin Roosevelt was asked if he hoped to meet Joseph Stalin. Said the President: hope springs eternal...
...Chinese fronts still hold. But the soldiers who hold them have changed. China's heroes are sick. For every man who lies on a reed pallet with battle wounds, ten lie ill of disease. For every man who tosses with dysentery, pneumonia or malaria in a hospital, four others suffer, unattended, in bivouac or trench. At the root of all this aching misery is a malnutrition so vast that no one dares try to cope with it. The fevers of China creep into bodies which exist day after day on 24 oz. of rice. From this rice the heroes...
...Navy and Coast Guard are now giving armed escort to munition-laden British merchantmen leaving Atlantic ports exploded . . . tonight." Next day the strongly pro-New Deal Record printed an editorial saying: "A few hours after the [O'Donnell] story appeared, the President denounced it as 'a deliberate lie.' . . . John O'Donnell is a Naziphile. ... On numerous occasions, to all friends and barflies within hearing, he has broadcast his sympathy with most of Hitler's aims-such as destruction of the British Empire, suppression of labor unions and liquidation of Jews." O'Donnell sued...