Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lie on His Back." In the midst of the affair, a Peiping newspaper, Hsin Min Pao, drew a moral...
...There are differences between the Chinese and Western attitudes toward mountains. . . . Chinese poets are inspired by mountains to write poems. . . . Mountains in China also serve as inspiration for suggestive landscape paintings. The artist does not necessarily have to visit the mountain. He can lie on his back and dream. . . . Now we have Mr. Reynolds, holding an atomic pen in his hand. . . . He knows the value of using mountains to publicize his name and his pen, while the Chinese know only about burying themselves after death in mountains which are famous...
Next day, 500 policemen patrolled the block around the Stock Exchange and there was no more trouble. The American Civil Liberties Union deplored the "lie-down," saying: "By completely denying the right of access to and from the ... Stock Exchange, the pickets abused their lawful right to picket." But it also found "little or no justification for the club-wielding tactics of the police...
...unruffled paragon of sociological purpose, Beatrice-who could herself outwork and outlecture most social workers of the era-felt feebly feminine and small, "a mere dilettante." After hours of involved research into feudal economy, say, Beatrice would be ashamed to find that her head ached and she had to lie down-while Sidney indefatigably continued to probe the intricacies of mortgage and land-tenure. But he was wonderfully sympathic and never impatient...
...going to get licked," Freshman Coach Moe Berg and Jayvee mentor Lloyd Harper chanted last night when queried on their charges' prospects against each other on Soldiers Field this afternoon. Unless a new wrinkle appears in baseball competition, one of the two coaches is going to be given the lie...