Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...illustrate Lie's even-keeled forbearance, associates tell about the time last spring when U.S. radio commentators criticized him for his intervention in the Iran issue in the Security Council. Nervous aids urged Lie to answer the radio pundits, but he merely grinned: "These commentators, they certainly are bad fellows. You know, one of them said Ed Stettinius was the handsomest man at the Security Council table-where I sit too. You can imagine the effect that kind of talk had on my family." Lie has iron nerves, can go to bed at the end of a troubled...
That, in the fall of 1946, was the world's most fatal question. A large part of the answer depended on the new immigrant himself, but Trygve Lie, sawing and smoothing and (sometimes) hacking brusquely away at tasks immediately before him, was no man to waste time wondering whether he was building Utopia or merely providing material for a footnote on how two civilizations (and some threescore sovereignties) catastrophically clashed...
...been at its first meeting in London, early this year. It now faced the chronic and perhaps more serious crisis of paralysis through the stubborn inflexibility of its component parts. To stave off U.N.'s slow death by deadlock, many people looked to Trygve Halvdan Lie (pronounced Lee), the U.N.'s Secretary-General, its chief administrative officer, the man who stood closer than any other single individual to U.N.'s mechanism, if not to its heart...
Internationalism Lie had known ever since his childhood. He grew up in an exciting era, when the battle for the receivership of the 19th Century had just begun. His mother's boardinghouse in Grorud, near Oslo, was cosmopolitan-Swedish, Finnish, Polish, German, Russian workers paid mother Lie 20? a day for room & board. In the evening, around the table, Trygve heard them talk of the Russo-Japanese War, of the abortive Russian revolution of 1905, of Norway's breakaway from Sweden, of syndicalism and the brotherhood of all workers. In those days Trygve Lie also acquired a faith...
Typically, he believes that he is doing all he can for U.N. under present conditions. Immigrant Lie has built a roof over his and U.N.'s head, has kept the organization running. Since he took over, he has recruited from 45 nations a Secretariat of 2,992 men & women, ranging from hat-check girls to high-powered economists...