Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winchell to Vishinsky: "If the people of Russia knew the facts, you might be a defendant, instead of a prosecutor." Winchell accepted a sarcastic Vishinsky "invitation" to visit Russia, provided other U.S. newsmen could go along. Said he: "I wouldn't be able to lie ... with so many rivals present...
Fred's readjustment with his wife is not so easy. Under the shock of war, she has developed that reliable old case of amnesia. She doesn't know Fred MacMurray from Fred Allen, and has married a rich planter (Roland Culver), who believes in letting sleeping memories lie. Before he can get her back, MacMurray, who hardly seems up to it, has to shoot holes in a couple of heavies; Ava has to get a bang on the head to restore her memory; and Culver has to turn decent and tell her not to worry about...
...those who will lead the group during its first year of formal existence the answers lie implicit in proposals adopted by the panel and plenary sessions at Madison. They lie further in the determined implementation scheme. Two NSA vice-presidents will chair respectively the commissions on student domestic affairs. They will be fulltime salaried employees (along with the president, secretary, treasurer, and editor) required to leave school. In the reports of the convention delegates there are suggestions for specific projects sufficient to keep them busy far longer than their one-year term...
...terms of physical force, the Jews appear well able to fare for themselves on the basis of their World War II record alone. But more important, the moral, economic, and physical weight of the UN will lie directly behind partition. However, Arab threats are not considered too serious. Sections of the majority report urging economic settlement with them will, in time, have a very healing effect...
Stripped, however, of its editorial and production merits Mater Advocate stands perhaps a trifle embarrassedly exposed to the quibbler's truth about its literary worth. It is in the quality of featured creative writing that the publication's distinctive claim to excellence must lie. This time the copy looks good; and it is well above the average in published collegiate work. But "Burnt Mountain Revival," by William Austin Emerson, nearly overshadows its lively picture of hell's-fire-and-brimstone religion with contrived hillbilly dialogue ("Hit's a rite purty night, ant it,' Homer said, laying the paddle across...