Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Noel Coward-for sheer versatility. But his many talents had a single aim, a showman's aim: to please the crowd. "First think of something to say," his formula ran, "Then say it the way the theatergoer wants to hear it-meaning, of course, that you must lie like the dickens." Of pure Irish stock, he never plugged the wearing of the green-it was always the red, white & blue...
This statement and others like it were not the shockers that they would have been a few months ago. People had begun to understand that simple figures on U.S. and enemy naval losses, no matter how well-intentioned, could lie about the actual relative naval strengths of the Pacific war. The misconception usually had been on the side of U.S. preponderance...
...hall would probably be dusty and the lights might go out, but the survivors had better stay below. Over the amplifiers came the same clipped voice (it was a lieutenant standing on the bridge). "You chaps in the mess hall," came his cheerful voice, "in case of a hit lie prone on the deck. . . . Here they come, sir-5-17- 22-30-44 torpedo bombers coming...
Brown turns scarlet when sportswriters call him Precision Paul. Nevertheless, it is his passion for punctilio that makes this year's Ohio State team tick like a Swiss watch. In a game, he forbids players to lie down during time out, forbids his water carrier even to come on the field...
...Lie in the heart's residuum. . . . Amen...