Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Panama, there were low mutterings of "Qué horror!" (Outrageous!). From Havana, Trygve Lie cabled apologies. On his whirl through the Antilles and Central America, he had missed a banquet tossed for him by the Lions Club in Panama City's swank Union Club. Some 133 guests, including the entire diplomatic corps, the entire Panamanian Cabinet, the presidents of the National Assembly and Supreme Court, waited more than an hour before deciding that the U.N. Secretary-General had stood them up. Lie, reportedly annoyed when his official chauffeur got lost or mislaid, proceeded to Cuba. Panamanians were most piqued...
...wound up his affairs: "I'm just awful tired and confused. The people I thought were for me, were against me. I'm 60 and if I ever do another stroke of work in my life I'm a sucker. I'm going to lie on a beach and not even think, and just be a mollusk." It was hard for Philadelphia to believe that Stern could ever take it easy. Some guessed that he and his son, David III, publisher of the Camden papers, would take their money (around $10 million, less $5½ million...
...months of disinterested effort by various individuals and committees lie behind the document which comes up for undergraduate approval this afternoon--six months which saw bitter attacks and mutual suspicion give way to progressive cooperation of a sort unique in the history of student affairs...
When a severely marked undergraduate feels that he has been done an injustice, he is merely ushered to the instructor's grade sheets, where it is proved that the machines did not lie. A clerical error on the part of an instructor in making up the grade would have to be rectified by the teacher in charge of the course, who would report the error in writing to the Dean of the Faculty, the change to be approved by the Dean...
...trackage rights to San Francisco, he said airily: "There's always ways of picking them up-like we're picking up the Central." As his interests in Missouri Pacific lie with the common stockholders, he is once more using his cry of "banker domination" to good effect. If & when he gets MOP, Bob Young's master plan will have gained him what Railroad Barons Fisk and Hill tried to get-a railroad system running from coast to coast...