Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lie there is always a certain force of credibility. . . . In the primitive simplicity of their minds [the masse] more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie since they themselves . . . would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods...
...grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying...
More Trouble Ahead. The Arabs were still far from ready for an organized, sustained war in Palestine. But the threat was serious enough to cause headaches at U.N., where the Palestine Commission was being formed. Secretary-General Trygve Lie appointed Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, U.S. Negro educator, who has been director of the U.N. Trusteeship Division, to be chief of the Palestine Commission Secretariat. Britain planned to hand over its mandate soon after the commission's arrival (probably some time in May). After that, say the British, they will take no responsibility for order in Palestine...
Last week, Big Jim went out of his whimsical way to whack the big city boys in Birmingham. He didn't have to lie down to do it, either. He simply made a suburban drug clerk president of the Jefferson County Commission, which runs the county. Birmingham is the county seat...
...Haller Cooper was a different kind of grotesque. His father was an English photographer; his mother was German. Somehow his mother had instilled in him a love for Germany. "It cannot be put down in black and white how she wove the spell about him. . . . The secret does not lie in the promise of conquest. That secret is a lyricism that extends the kingdom of the nightingale, diffuses everywhere the secret perfume of the rose. The home where this man's mother lived was distinguished from all the other red-brick and stucco houses in a shabby suburban street...