Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every night except Mondays at 8:30. Every night the range of the music is immense; tonight's program, for example, includes things by Handel and Johann Strauss. To rent a chair costs a dime, but if you're healthy or sensible, or both, you'll pay nothing and lie on the grass...
...waiting, some young couples are still looking for a chance to sublet a single room in the city's cheapest slum before they can marry. For these people, social life is simple. On Sunday, they walk out to the University City's crusted, sandy slopes, where they lie in the sun and talk and stare at the still unfilled trenches of the Civil...
...rambling tales of past battles, and searching hints that "the spirit" was still in strife. The enemy always turned out to be something deeper than prejudice and more dangerous than moneygrubbing; it was whatever interfered with living fully, in the moment. He was in pain much of the time. Lying on the cot in his cavelike "office" just off the gallery, he used to say that now he himself was "in retreat. I just lie here, trying to understand...
...dropped his baton into a crack in the floor just as the curtain was going up and couldn't fish it out. He sent a violinist for something to replace it, conducted part of the first act with the rung of a chair. Said he: "I had to lie down for quite a while afterward before my strength came back...
...armed man, described by Havelock as 24, of dark complexion, 5 feet 7 inches tall, with greasy black hair brushed straight back, forced him abruptly into the room, and had him remove his clothes and lie down...