Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should not be extended into fresh territory, and determined that the Union should be preserved. In the summer of 1941 the U.S. is generally agreed that Hitler shall not extend his power into regions that threatened the freedom of the U.S.; the only dispute was over where those regions lie...
These confident words were put on the wires of the world last weekend by D.N.B.. the official German news agency. The German braggadocio was given the lie direct by the official Russian communique, which said: "The result of the first three weeks of the war testify to the undoubted failure of Hitler's plan of lightning war." There was so much evidence that both Germans and Russians were lying that there was no reliable exposition of what was really happening. But a few inferences could be made...
...thousand miles up the steaming Amazon from the Atlantic Ocean, 15,000 feet over the crusty Andes from the Pacific, lies the only undrawn boundary remaining on the American continents. The 50,000 square miles of territory in dispute between Peru and Ecuador lie mostly between the Marañón and Napo Rivers, tributaries of the Amazon (plus a picayune area along the Pacific coast). They are made up of a little fertile highland, a little more barren mountainside and much more tangled jungle, from which come a bit of rubber and some desiccated human heads for the tourist...
Said the London Times of the new British project: "[Even among well-educated Britons] Washington is a half-mythical figure who couldn't tell a lie. Jefferson is almost wholly forgotten. Lincoln is remembered because he abolished slavery rather than because he saved the Union. ... In every sense a world in which American leadership is effective will be a new world. That is one of the many reasons why the study of American history, American institutions and above all American traditions is of prime importance to the rising generation in this country...
...that he is man enough to merit the colonel's daughter) consists of enrolling the comedian in each new attack outfit (tank corps, parachute troops, etc.) as it is formed, and letting the gags fall where they may. Some of them get up and walk, but many just lie there. Hope's view of it, after running a tank into the colonel's car: "Me trying to be a corporal! I'll be lucky if they don't try to take away my citizenship." Grade-A Hopeism, after the tank accident: "Terribly sorry about...