Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impression on the people that Communists are individual terrorists, when you know in your dirty black hearts that the Communists are not individual terrorists. Terrorism belongs to the system that you represent and would like to bring to Mexico and above all in Russia. You can wish and lie and insinuate with all your might, history will show you up for what you are, enemies of the people both at home and abroad...
...words were to be taken at their face value last week, a lot of them had dirty faces. The lie was freely passed; the retort discourteous was the rule. Slanderous accusations splattered like eggs. If any citizen could be found last week who believed half of what he heard, he must have been sad indeed. Whichever candidate was elected-if he were to believe his ears-the country was lost...
...tear into a turkey together. Dorothy must be there to provide her own inimitable brand of cranberry sauce, and General Johnson to dish out the stuffing. And when they're through squabbling over the white meat and have eaten their fill, they can take off their shoes and lie down. That'll show Hitler. That's American...
...Tolls" is Ernest Heminway's greatest book, greater even than "A farewell to Arms." In harrowing days like these we live in, it is interesting to see just what kind of book it is that can catch men's attention, and light up for an instant the shadows that lie behind the day-by-day kaleidoscope of draft numbers, campaign speeches, and invasions...
President Cárdenas had several reasons for changing his mind. In the folds of Mexico's hills lie great deposits of antimony, manganese, mercury, tungsten, fluor spar, molybdenum. But big producers have never worked them, have concentrated on gold, silver, zinc, copper. The other metals have been left to the Indians, who grub them out of the ground, trot down to the market centres with a pat of tungsten, a tin of mercury whenever they need money for tortillas or pulque. The sales to Japan helped prime small native industry...