Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Bruns got pretty angry. Frenchmen might lie, but photographs could not. This picture was incontrovertible proof that Sumner Welles and Paul Reynaud had discussed a post-war settlement. See, said the professor, how the Allies planned to dismember Germany and friends: Poland restored and enlarged at the expense of Germany and Russia; Schleswig-Holstein to Denmark; German cessions to Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Switzerland; Austria restored with an Adriatic outlet at Trieste; Yugoslavia enlarged at Italy's expense; Italy's vital Dodecanese Islands to Greece; Turkey increased at Bulgaria's expense...
...symbol of a golden age that was, lie was at least the symbol of a golden age that had not entirely died. He had surmounted difficulties that would have been insurmountable in any other country, and pulled himself up to a position of eminence by his own boot-straps. Vag remembered that the Crimson had long ago nominated Fiorello for President in 1944--Vag thought it was a pretty good idea...
...peace few war scars had healed. And if anyone wanted to see what Western Europe had a good chance of looking like after a year or so of total war, Spain was the place to see it. A few miles from the Puerta del Sol, Madrid's hub, lie the desolate ruins of suburbs where fighting raged for more than two years. The $50,000,000 University City is a pile of rubble, and in West Park, where trenches still remain, only 33 trees are left standing. In Barcelona and Bilbao, Spain's first and second seaports...
...lousy day in Chicago"; school authorities to his occasional stormy-weather advice to mothers: "I wouldn't send the kids to school today. . . . Missing one day of school won't hurt 'em." Patriots stormed at his Washington's Birthday crack: "He never told a lie. And look where he is now." The bloomer people hit the ceiling last year when they found out his nonsensical "N.P. B.C. girls club" meant No Panties Before Christmas. But once when Chicago & North Western flagged him down, 2,800 protesting letters promptly restored...
Before they decided that the present arrangement would be practical, the Crimson Network technicians conducted many experiments to determine if reception would be clear throughout the University. For hours they crept shirtless through the superheated tunnels that lie under the Yard and the Houses. At short intervals they hooked up a receiver to the pipes to make sure that the waves being transmitted were not leaking away into the ground...